cannon
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9.9
- noun
- /ˈkænən/
- Archaic
:
pieza de armadura para el brazo
- Annie Cannon has left us no autobiography detailing her childhood experiences.
Examples
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What Linnaeus did for the world of organisms, Annie Jump Cannon did for the stars.
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Annie Cannon never asked what it meant.
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Payne has given us a charming portrait of Cannon at work.
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Every account I have ever read of Annie Jump Cannon mentions her serene, affectionate, engaging nature.
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Cannon seems to have had the knack of forming intimate and lasting friendships with everyone.
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Cannon had classified stellar spectra by identifying the elements producing spectral lines.
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By 1923, the year Cecilia Payne arrived at Harvard, Cannon had codified the criteria used in classifying stars.
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In this task, Cannon was like a person who, every working day of her life, walks through a forest picking up leaves and identifying them—this one is an oak, that one a maple.
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The knight wore a suit of armor reinforced with a cannon to protect against enemy attacks.
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During the exhibition, they showcased an ancient cannon used in medieval warfare.
Synonyms
A piece of metal armor that covers the upper arm above the elbow
A metal plate that covers and protects the forearm
Compounds
How Protective
Surface Forms
Etymology
Cannon (armour) was the name for a tubular metal piece that covered the forearm, from Latin canna 'reed' because it is shaped like a cylinder. So a cannon protected the arm like a metal sleeve.