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1. (noun) Lituus
a curved staff used by the augurs in quartering the heavens

2. (noun) Lituus
an instrument of martial music; a kind of trumpet of a somewhat curved form and shrill note

3. (noun) Lituus
a spiral whose polar equation is r2/ = a; that is, a curve the square of whose radius vector varies inversely as the angle which the radius vector makes with a given line

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