Noun:

Litmus,

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The word lituus originally meant a curved augural staff, or a curved war-trumpet in the ancient Latin language.

In mathematics, a lituus is a spiral with polar equation r 2 θ = k {\displaystyle r^{2}\theta =k} where k is any non-zero constant.

The medieval lituus was a musical instrument of an indeterminate nature, known only.

da tirarsi corno da tirarsi it brass, horn corni da tirarsi lituus lituo it brass, lituus lituuses litui timpani timpani it percussion Christmas Oratorio.

Opisthostoma lituus is a species of air-breathing land snail with an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Diplommatinidae.

rarely: καρνον—"karnon") was a Celtic-Dacian variant of the Etruscan-Roman lituus and belongs to the family of brass instruments.

name Vitis lituus and noted they were made by a gall gnat in the genus Cecidomyia.

This would create a specific name Cecidomyia vitis lituus, which is.

hieroglyphs include a representation of a crook staff, by convention named lituus (Latin for "crooked staff").

The simpulum is commonly shown with the lituus and other sacrificial and augural instruments, on coins of Julius Caesar.

instruments were a long straight trumpet (tuba), a large curved brass instrument (lituus), and a water organ (organum).

instruments were used by aeneators, including the buccina, cornu, tuba, and lituus.

Apollo is depicted on the obverse with a lituus behind, while the reverse reuses that of his possible father, the moneyer.

scholars believed that the alphorn had been derived from the Roman-Etruscan lituus, because of their resemblance in shape, and because of the word liti, meaning.

of Fermat's spiral r = a√φ under the inversion at the unit circle is a lituus spiral with polar equation r = 1 a φ .

} Fermat's spiral: r = a φ 1 / 2 {\displaystyle r=a\varphi ^{1/2}} The lituus: r = a φ − 1 / 2 {\displaystyle r=a\varphi ^{-1/2}} The logarithmic spiral:.

Roman symbolism connected with the imperial cult such as the simpulum and lituus.

public banquets; augurs proudly displayed the symbol of the office, the lituus.

Roman trumpets, the lituus was a higher pitched instrument, the sound of which Classical writers described as acutus ("high").

The lituus and the buccina.