LABYRINTH | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of labyrinth in English

(Definition of labyrinth from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of labyrinth from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of labyrinth

labyrinth
The labyrinth, that primordial ground plan and image of architectural endeavour, is a projection linking time and place.
Anteriorly the epithelial cells, 3.3 mm deep, lie on a thick, smooth, basal lamina with no labyrinth layer (fig. 6).
I think that students will be thoroughly lost in the labyrinth she has created.
The endolymphatic duct is a tubular structure that connects the labyrinth to the external environment.
The finite difference computer program gives a satisfactory answer to the problem of leakage in the labyrinth seal.
Here the cello goes through a pulse labyrinth, in which the pulses come in and out of focus.
A political labyrinth emerged from this contradictory attitude.
The basal lamina of the epithelial cell is thick and convoluted and has no basal labyrinth.
You can shape your own vision of the world, full of illuminating chance encounters, assembling a personal library as you dance the labyrinth of learning.
This implies the sequence of identical labyrinth chambers in a row on the shaft.
The apical plasma membrane infolds to form a labyrinth continuous with the basal labyrinth, suggesting continuous transport of nutrients across the epithelial cells.
This creates a shallow undercroft space, in which will be constructed a thermal labyrinth.
This labyrinth, being sheltered by the building, will be at a temperature close to the mean ground temperature, like a cellar or cave.
Our art intentionally adds conflicting information to this silicon labyrinth: musically, culturally and contextually.
I get up and (my beer in hand) walk though an unobtrusive partition into an acoustic labyrinth, and the sound of the club space recedes.
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Translations of labyrinth

in Chinese (Traditional)
迷宮, 曲徑, 令人迷惑的東西,迷宮一樣的東西…
in Chinese (Simplified)
迷宫, 曲径, 令人迷惑的东西,迷宫一样的东西…
in Spanish
laberinto…
in Portuguese
labirinto…
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labyrinthe…
labirent…
doolhof…
labyrint…
labyrint…
labirin…
วงกต…
mê cung…
labirynt…
labyrint…
jalan yang berselirat…
das Labyrinth…
labyrint, irrgang…
лабіринт…
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