claviform

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Larger at the tip than at the base; club-shaped.

   “Claviform is the reverse of stalactitic; it is composed of club-shaped parallel rods which adhere by their thin extremities. Examples, brown and black hæmatite.”

2. isim An image or symbol which is club-shaped, that is, larger at the tip than at the base.

   “There is also a faded red painting of a claviform (a thick curved line with a raised bump or point in the middle) that looks awfully similar to those found at a few other sites in northern Spain. A claviform from Altamira was dated using the uranium-series technique and is at least 35,000 years old.”

3. sıfat Shaped like a nail (“a metallic spike-shaped fastener”).

   “CLAVOPORA Busk, 1874. Colony small, erect, coriaceous, claviform (nail-shaped), with two well differentiated parts: [...]”

4. sıfat Key-shaped.

   “The signs can be sorted out into two main classes: those which are paired or 'coupled' [...] and those which stand alone—mostly tectiform (roof-shaped) and claviform (key-shaped). There seems to be a conventional arrangement whereby certain signs are placed at the beginning of a 'sanctuary'.”