trilling

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The production of a trill sound.
    — It was pretty close quarters, but I had conversed with her at such length during the nest-building time, that she knew my voice and soon began to answer me in low trillings — trillings that could scarcely be heard — and turn her head to look at me in a friendly way.
  2. A compound crystal consisting of three individuals.
    — Diametrically opposed rays of these stellate groups are of the same optical orientation and the twins are, therefore, trillings ( fig. 29 ).
  3. One of three offspring born at the same birth; a triplet. obsolete,rare
    — Every 67th lying-in woman has twins, every 5333rd has trillings, and only every 150,000th has fourlings.
动词 v.
  1. present participle and gerund of trill form-of,gerund,participle,present

词形变化

trillings plural trillings plural

词源

Compare German Drilling.
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