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Definition: Litui
Lituus
\Lit"u*us\, n.; pl.
Litui. [L.]
1. (Rom. Antig.)
(a) A curved staff used by the augurs in quartering the
heavens.
(b) An instrument of martial music; a kind of trumpet of a
somewhat curved form and shrill note.
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2. (Math.) A spiral whose polar equation is r^
2[theta] = a;
that is, a curve the square of whose radius vector varies
inversely as the angle which the radius vector makes with
a given line.
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