stadium

Definitions

1. A venue where sporting events are held.
2. stage (phase)
3. An Ancient Greek racecourse, especially, the Olympic course for foot races.
4. Synonym of stadion, a Greek unit of length equivalent to about 185 m.
   historical
5. A kind of telemeter for measuring the distance of an object of known dimensions, by observing the angle it subtends.
6. A graduated rod used to measure the distance of the place where it stands from an instrument having a telescope, by observing the number of the graduations of the rod that are seen between certain parallel wires (stadia wires) in the field of view of the telescope.
7. A life stage of an organism.

Equivalents

Examples

“He is going for a cricket match⟳ at the stadium.”

“In a convulsion that has caught many in Brazil and beyond by surprise⟳, waves of protesters denounced their leaders for dedicating so many resources to cultivating Brazil’s global image by building stadiums for international events, when basic services like⟳ education and health care remain⟳ woefully inadequate.”

“Dionysiodorus[…]sent a letter ad superos after he was dead, from the centre of the earth, to signify what distance the same centre was from the superficies of the same, viz. 42,000 stadiums […].”

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