armillary sphere

English

An armillary sphere.

Noun

armillary sphere (plural armillary spheres)

1. An instrument consisting of graduated metal circles used to represent the motions of celestial bodies around the earth.

   Synonym: armill

   • 1908, Walter Crum Watson, Portuguese Architecture, page 24:

     Most of this bench is covered with tiles of Moorish design, but on the front each is stamped with an armillary sphere in which the axis is yellow, the lines of the equator and tropics green, and the rest blue. These one would certainly take to be of Dom Manoel's time, for the armillary sphere was his emblem, but they are said to be older.

Translations

instrument consisting of graduated metal circles

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: esfera armil·lar f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 渾天儀／浑天仪 (zh) (húntiānyí), 渾儀／浑仪 (zh) (húnyí), 渾象／浑象 (zh) (húnxiàng)

• Danish: armillarsfære c
• Dutch: armillarium n
• Finnish: armillaari
• French: sphère armillaire (fr) f
• German: Armillarsphäre (de) f
• Greek: σφαιρικός αστρολάβος m (sfairikós astrolávos)

  Ancient: ἀστρολάβος m (astrolábos)

• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: sfera armillare (it) f
• Japanese: 天球儀 (てんきゅうぎ, tenkyūgi), アーミラリ天球儀 (āmirari tenkyūgi), 渾天儀 (こんてんぎ, kontengi)
• Korean: 혼천의(渾天儀) (ko) (honcheonui)
• Persian: ذات الحلق (zât-ol-halaq)
• Portuguese: esfera armilar f
• Russian: армилля́рная сфе́ра f (armilljárnaja sféra)
• Spanish: esfera armilar f
• Swahili: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: armillarsfär, armilla
• Turkish: halkalı küre
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can