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lituus - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'lituus' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Lituus [ n.]
- A curved staff used by the augurs in quartering the heavens.
- An instrument of martial music; a kind of trumpet of a somewhat curved form and shrill note.
- A spiral whose polar equation is r2/ = a; that is, a curve the square of whose radius vector varies inversely as the angle which the radius vector makes with a given line.