eightlike

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adjective

Shaped like a figure eight.

Similar
octiform
Scrabble 17

Meanings

adjectiveeightlike (comparative more eightlike, superlative most eightlike)

comparative more eightlike · superlative most eightlike

  1. rareShaped like a figure eight.

    ...with the contemporaneously developing notion about the eightlike shape of the crumpled wheel and the figure eight more generally.

    1965, August Aichhorn, Otto Fleischmann, Paul Kramer, Helen Ross, Delinquency and child guidance: selected papers
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    For example, some scholars thought that an eightlike figure on the robe of the Virgin signified that the image was the eighth wonder of the world.

    2006, Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Nature, empire, and nation

    Synonyms: octiform

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveShaped like a figure eight.

Similar
octiform

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*oḱtṓw
  2. Proto-Germanic*ahtōu
  3. Proto-West Germanic*ahtō
  4. Old Englisheahta
  5. Middle Englisheighte
  6. Englisheight
  7. Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
  8. Proto-Germanic*līką
  9. Englisheightlike

From eight + -like.

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Chicago

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