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lituus
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lituus, n. [L.].
- A curved staff used by the augurs in quartering the heavens. [1913 Webster]
- A spiral whose polar equation is
r 2 ; that is, a curve the square of whose radius vector varies inversely as the angle which the radius vector makes with a given line. [1913 Webster]
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