- Astronomy a satellite of Uranus, the eleventh closest to the planet, having a complex terrain of cratered areas and tracts of grooves and ridges, discovered in 1948 (diameter 480 km).【天文】天卫五。
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named after the daughter of Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest.
adjective
- US Law denoting or relating to the duty of the police to inform a person taken into custody of their right to legal counsel and the right to remain silent under questioning【美律】(与)米兰达原则(有关)的(指警察应告知在押人有权聘请律师和被讯问时有权保持沉默的责任):
the patrolman read Lee his Miranda rights.
巡警向李宣读了他的米兰达权力。
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mid 20th cent.: from Miranda versus Arizona, the case that led to this ruling by the Supreme Court.