multicursalとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˌmʌltɨˈkɜːsəl/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˌməltiˈkɝsəl/, /ˌməltaɪ-/

形容詞

multicursal (comparative more multicursal, superlative most multicursal)

1. (sometimes figuratively) Of a maze or labyrinth: having more than one possible route between the centre and the outside.
   • 1922, W. H. Matthews, Mazes & Labyrinths, page xii. 185

     The Hampton Court maze..may serve as the type of a compact and the Versailles example..that of a diffuse multicursal labyrinth.

   • 1988, W. B. Faris, The Labyrinths of Lang, page iv. 86

     The reader's progress through these labyrinths of language thus forms a multicursal pattern.

アナグラム

• culturalism