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Lituus   Listen
noun
Lituus  n.  (pl. litui)  
1.
(Rom. Antig.)
(a)
A curved staff used by the augurs in quartering the heavens.
(b)
An instrument of martial music; a kind of trumpet of a somewhat curved form and shrill note.
2.
(Math.) A spiral whose polar equation is r^(2)*theta = 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.






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