英语词汇“tentation”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

tentation

释义

tentation|tɛnˈteɪʃən|
[ad. L. tentātiōn-em, late form (after Romanic) of temptātiōn-em, n. of action from temptāre (tentāre) to try, tempt.]
1. Obsolete form of temptation, q.v.: sometimes specially expressing experimental trial, as distinct from enticement to evil.
2. techn. A mode of working or adjusting by trial or experiment.
a. ‘(Locksmithing.) A mode of picking locks in which the bolt is pressed backward constantly, and the tumblers released one by one from the stud.’
b. ‘(Compass-adjusting.) Professor Airy's mode of adjusting compasses in iron ships, in which boxes of iron chain and magnets are experimentally placed and shifted..until the disturbing influence of the iron hull is neutralized’ (Knight Dict. Mech. 1877 s.v.).

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