English Dictionary

coign

IPA（発音記号）

/kɔɪn/

名詞

A projecting corner or angle; a cornerstone. / The keystone of an arch. / A wedge used in typesetting.

日本語の意味

突き出た角、または四隅の角部分。 / アーチの頂部に位置する頂石、すなわちアーチの中央を支える重要部分。 / 組版において使用されるくさび形の部品。

She set her spyglass on the coign of the castle wall to scan the distant coastline.

彼女は遠くの海岸線を見渡すために、城壁の張り出した角に望遠鏡を置いた。

意味（1）

A projecting corner or angle; a cornerstone.

By many a dern and painful perch Of Pericles the careful search By the four opposing coigns Which the world together joins, Is made with all due diligence

意味（2）

The keystone of an arch.

意味（3）

A wedge used in typesetting.

意味（4）

A a corner of a crystal formed by the intersection of three or more faces at a point (in crystallography)

In both the orthogonal and clinographic projections the light rays joining the eye and crystal coigns (solid angles, corners at which three or more edges meet) are all parallel

意味（5）

An original angular elevation of land around which continental growth has taken place (in geology)

South of the North American coign we have again a pair of east - west mountain chains

coigns （ plural ）