circle
Meanings
サークル、円
Examples :
儀式的な円で、杖を使って空中で三回時計回りに投げられ、三回反時計回りに閉じられるもの、または石や礼拝に使用されるその他のアイテムで文字通り閉じられるもの。
Examples :
目盛りの付いた部分が完全な円で構成されている観測器。
An instrument of observation, whose graduated limb consists of an entire circle. When fixed to a wall in an observatory, it is called a mural circle; when mounted with a telescope on an axis and in Y's, in the plane of the meridian, a meridian or transit circle; when involving the principle of reflection, like the sextant, a reflecting circle; and when that of repeating an angle several times continuously along the graduated limb, a repeating circle.