ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD QUINCUNX
From Latin: five twelfths, from quinque five + uncia twelfth; in ancient Rome, this was a coin worth five twelfths of an as² and marked with five spots.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «QUINCUNX»
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quincunx in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
quincunx and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
An extraordinary modern novel in the Victorian tradition, Charles Palliser has created something extraordinary--a plot within a plot within a plot of family secrets, mysterious clues, low-born birth, high-reaching immorality, and, always, ...
Travel at light speeds is common, and Earth - the first in the universe to discover it - now reigns over many worlds.
The herb garden at Knebworth was in the form of a quincunx - an arrangement of
four plants marking the corners of a square, with a fifth placed in the centre. The
figure originally described the planting of fruit trees in orchards, as advocated in ...
Ethne Clarke, Clive Nichols, 2003
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Orientations -- Space/time/image/word
After Browne, other writers have used the word "quincunx" in different ways and
referred to the complex cultural tradition of the plastic configuration it designates,
although without considering the quincunx as the principle of a whole ontology.
Claus Clüver, Véronique Plesch, Leo H. Hoek, 2005
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Masks of the Spirit: Image and Metaphor in Mesoamerica
Ubiquitous in Mesoamerica, the five points of the quincunx symbolize the earth
and the cosmos, life and motion, and the endless cyclic whirling of time. If the
quincunx thus derived from the solar course is rotated in a northerly direction on
its ...
Peter T. Markman, Roberta H. Markman, 1989
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Imaging for Forensics and Security: From Theory to Practice
3.4.2.2 Quincunx Downsampling Quincunx downsampling uses quincunx 2×2
resampling matrices whose entries are ±1 so that their determinant is equal to 2 [
55]. There are eight quincunx resampling matrices and the most commonly used
...
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The Decipherment of Ancient Maya Writing
The first pattern (Figure 47.1) consists of two parts: usually the so-called "Wing-
Quincunx" (a descriptive term of Coe's), and a personal name. The Wing-
Quincunx and those glyphs that are structurally similar (to be discussed
momentarily) are ...
Stephen D. Houston, Oswaldo Fernando Chinchilla Mazariegos, David Stuart, 2001
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Joyce, Chaos, and Complexity
Kenner asserts that Joyce's quincunx is an allusion to Dante's arrangement of the
souls of the "courageous ... in the fifth heaven" in the form of a Greek cross in
Paradiso (Dublin's Joyce 61-62), a dubious assumption both Beck (298) and ...
Thomas Jackson Rice, 1997
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Statistical Thinking for Managers
A picture of a quincunx is given in Figure 11.9. The device has an adjustable
funnel that feeds balls through a pin board into a series of parallel slots. The lines
of pins on the pin board are offset so that a ball falling from the funnel will bounce
...
J.A. John, D. Whitaker, D.G. Johnson, 2001
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Money: How to Find It With Astrology
The Quincunx. Two planets that are 150 degrees apart are in quincunx (or
inconjunct). The keyword is Adjustment, and the nature is like that of Neptune in
that the affairs denoted tend to be nebulous, with a spectrum as subtle as the
shades of ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «QUINCUNX»
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quincunx is used in the context of the following news items.
Erlebniswanderweg Quincunx: Unterwegs mit Ausblick
Der Erste Stadtrat Albert Fernau (Vierter von rechts) eröffnete den Quincunx auf der Hohen Buche zusammen mit Peter Schweitzer (von links), Otto Schmidt, ... «HNA.de, Jul 15»
Neue Attraktion: Vier Wanderwege verbinden fünf Dörfer
Vier Wanderwege verbinden die fünf Dörfer Braunhausen, Gilfershausen, Iba, Solz und Imshausen. Der neue Kulturerlebnisweg Quincunx soll Sonntag, 19. «HNA.de, Jul 15»
Gus Miller: The Educator
Because the students have no experience with wind direction, five marks in a quincunx to keep them oriented to the wind must be set accurately both on land ... «Scuttlebutt Sailing News, Jun 15»
Quincunx Properties $1.02 million Financing. D Gregg Doyle …
Quincunx Properties, Llc, Limited Liability Company just filed form D regarding $1.02 million equity financing. This is a new filing. Quincunx Properties was able ... «OctaFinance.com, May 15»
Favorite words of the Scripps National Spelling Bee spellers
"Quincunx". An arrangement of five things in a square or rectangle with one at each corner and one in the middle. Sylvie Lamontagne (Speller #29), Lakewood, ... «WXYZ, Apr 15»
Hoy a las 20:00 horas en Angamos 1850, Barrancas, San Antonio
El escritor nacional Dauno Tótoro y el médico Jorge Palma, presentan este sábado 24 de enero, en San Antonio, el libro 'La conjetura del Quincunx', nueva ... «Movimiento Generación 80, Jan 15»
The top 10 neo-Victorian novels
Three of my novels, The Quincunx, The Unburied and my latest, Rustication, happen wholly or partly over Christmas and show the darker – even menacing ... «The Guardian, Dec 14»
The Astrology Of Renée Zellweger's Face
The Uranus-Pluto square hits the exact degree next in December, and it makes an exact quincunx and trine to her Ascendant at that time. It will be interesting to ... «Beliefnet, Oct 14»
Making Astrology Work: The Rectification Of Kim Jong Un
Venus quincunx the natal Mercury-Venus conjunction. A fairly minor transit, but one that can set off eating/digestion related problems, especially given that ... «Beliefnet, Sep 14»
The Godzilla Guide To The Astrology Of August-October 2014
The action will be happening in three separate time frames: first between now and the end of the month, when the Saturn-Uranus quincunx that has already ... «Beliefnet, Aug 14»
