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dactyl

The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | 2006 | | Copyright

dactyl a metrical foot consisting of one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables or (in Greek and Latin) one long syllable followed by two short syllables. Recorded from late Middle English, the word comes via Latin from Greek daktulos, literally ‘finger’, the three bones of the finger corresponding to the three syllables.
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Dactyl

A Dictionary of Astronomy | 1997 | Copyright

Dactyl The satellite of asteroid Ida, discovered by the Galileo probe in 1993, the first confirmed satellite of an asteroid. Dactyl has dimensions of 1.6 × 1.4 × 1.2 km and an estimated density of 2.2–3.0 gm/cm3. It was about 100 km from Ida's centre when imaged.
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dactyl

The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

dac·tyl / ˈdaktl/ • n. Prosody a metrical foot consisting of one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables or (in Greek and Latin) one long syllable followed by two short syllables.

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dactyl

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Copyright

dactyl †date (fruit); (pros.) the foot — ‿‿. XIV. — L. dactylus — Gr. dáktulos finger, date, dactyl.
So dactylic XVI.
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dactyl

The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature | 2003 | | Copyright

dactyl, a metrical foot consisting of one long followed by two short syllables, or of one accented followed by two unaccented. See metre.
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Dactyl

A Dictionary of Earth Sciences | 1999 | | Copyright

Dactyl See IDA.
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dactyl

Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

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