ablatitiousとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

ablatitious (comparative more ablatitious, superlative most ablatitious)

1. (Late Modern, sciences, obsolete) Subtractive or tending to diminish.

   the ablatitious force

   • 1676, Thomas Binning, A Light to the Art of Gunnery […]‎^[1], pages 86–7:

     The whole Operation of the said Example you have in the next page, where you may observe, that for the more certain and easie placing, as well of the Numbers, which constitute the several Divisors, as of those which constitute the Ablatitious Numbers to be subtracted from the several and respective Resolvends […]

   • 1728, William Whiston, Astronomical Lectures, Read in the Publick Schools at Cambridge […], page 119:

     Now the former of these Causes, the Eccentricity of the Orbit […] Remits us to the Aphelia and Perihelia for an Equation of Time, which answers to the Quantity of that Eccentricity, and is once a Year addititious, (または to be added to the true, that is, the apparent Time,) and once ablatitious, (または to be taken from it.)

   • 1834, John Herschel, A Treatise on Astronomy, page 330:

     This part of M’s action is termed the ablatitious force, because it tends to diminish the gravity of P towards S; […]