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单词 experimentum crucis
释义

experimentum crucis

English

Etymology

Modern Latin. From Latin experimentum crucis, "experiment of the cross".

Noun

experimentum crucis (uncountable)

  1. A "crucial experiment"; a conclusive test to decide between different hypotheses.
    • 1855, Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah, Dover 1964, p. 2:
      What remained for me but to prove, by trial, that what might be perilous to other travellers was safe to me? The “experimentum crucis” was a visit to Al-Híjaz, at once the most difficult and the most dangerous point by which a European can enter Arabia.
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