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凸透鏡 — meaning in English

tū tòu jìng

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English meaning

  • coupler noun Someone who couples things together, especially someone whose job it is to couple railway carriages.
  • coupling noun A mechanical device or fitting that joins two parts together, such as two pipes, train cars, or machine components.
  • shortstop noun In baseball, the infield position (and player) between second and third base.

Senses

凸透鏡 is used for these senses in English:

  • coupler Anything that serves to couple things together; but especially a device that couples railway carriages.
  • coupling A device that couples two things together.
  • half-back (rugby) the scrum-half and the fly-half
  • shortstop (baseball) The infield defensive player that stands between the second baseman and the third baseman.

coupler — full definition

  1. noun Someone who couples things together, especially someone whose job it is to couple railway carriages.
  2. noun Anything that serves to couple things together; but especially a device that couples railway carriages.
  3. noun A device that connects two keyboards of an organ together so that they play together.
  4. noun A device used to convert electronic information into audible sound signals for transmission over telephone lines.

coupling — full definition

  1. noun A mechanical device or fitting that joins two parts together, such as two pipes, train cars, or machine components.
  2. noun In software or electronics, the degree to which two systems, modules, or circuits depend on or affect each other.

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