Definitions for "maltese cross"
A cross with triangular or arrow-shaped arms and the points toward the center. See illustration under cross.
Term used (but erroneously) to describe the 1840 obliteration of Great Britain. It is actually an eight-pointed cross formed by four triangles, their tops meeting in the center, their bases indented-the top points should not overlap.
A cross made up of four arrowheads facing one another with their points meeting in the center.
A Eurasian garden perennial (Lychins chalcedonica) having scarlet flowers in dense terminal heads.
An alternative mechanism to the pulldown claw for advancing film one frame at a time past the projector or camera gate. It consists of a square cam with inward bowed sides and with radial slots cut in the corners, together with a continuously rotating disk with an eccentric pin that engages the square cam by the latter's slits. One revolution of the disk corresponds to a 90 degree rotation of the square cam. To keep the square cam (and the film held by sprockets linked to the square cam) still for most of the duty cycle, between pin engagements, the related disk has attached to it a concentric circular cam with a bite taken out of it, said circular cam contacting and matching the radius of the nearest bowed side of the square cam, except when the pin is engaging the square cam.