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n. a cord from which a metal weight is suspended pointing directly to the earth's center of gravity; used to determine the vertical from a given point
同义词： perpendicular

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N-COUNT A plumb line is a piece of string with a weight attached to the end that is used to check that something such as a wall is vertical or that it slopes at the correct angle. 铅垂线

Additional tools which will be required are metre stick plumb line and compass.

其他必须的工具包括米尺，铅垂和罗盘。

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Hull floors being fitted and checked for alignment with a centreline plumb line.

赫尔楼正在安装和检查调整，以中心线铅垂线。

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Think of this as being a plumb line to find... used to find the direction of gravity.

假设这是铅垂。，想想重力方向是怎样的。

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An Egyptian astronomer would have held up a plumb line and waited for the night sky to slowly pivot around the unmarked pole as the Earth rotated.

BBC: Pyramids lined up with the stars
Ben Kingsley, now sixty, is in great shape his carriage is so erect that you could drop a plumb line from the back of his bald crown to his heel.

NEWYORKER: House of Sand and Fog
When the plumb line exactly intersected both stars, one about 10 degrees above the invisible pole and the other 10 degrees below it, the sight line to the horizon would aim directly north.

BBC: Pyramids lined up with the stars

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plumb line
英 [ˈplʌm laɪn] 美 [ˈplʌm laɪn]