catascopic
形容词 adj.
英文释义
形容词 adj.
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Related to spying or scouting.
— To be aggelos, to be an angel, to exercise this angelic office, this catascopic office of spy and scout, he really must be free of all attachments.
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Related to aerial photography.
— New strategies were needed too, from the macroscopic (satellite imaging analysis), through the catascopic (aerial photography by kite; fig. 6, sidebar) to the microscopic (water-sieving and soil sampling [...]).
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Of scientific forms of thinking which take wider contexts (groups, society, etc.) as a main frame of reference and study and explain individual behaviour in relationship to this broader context.
— The functionalist approach of societies is catascopic. Social phenomena are conceived of as parts of a whole that are determined by this whole.
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