英语词源
- quincunx (n.)
- 1640s, originally astrological, of planetary alignments, from Latin, literally "five twelfths" (especially "five unciae," that is, "five-twelfths of an as," the basic unit of Roman currency), from quinque "five" (see quinque-) + uncia "ounce; a twelfth part (of anything)," related to unus "one" (see one). Applied, especially in garden design, to arrangements like the five pips on a playing card (1660s). Related: Quincuncial.
权威例句
- 1. First , the lifting quincunx wavelet transform is used to perform a multiscale decomposition of each image.
- 在提升五株形小波多尺度分解的基础上, 给出一种新的像素级图像融合方法.