Researchers discovered that after having the lobster's larger claw, the crusher claw, clamp down on a load cell, a pressure-measuring device. This claw looks like it has molars because it's used to break up anything hard like crabs, clams, mussels.
[sic] is an abbreviation for âsic erat scriptumâ which is Latin for âthus it had been writtenâ, meaning that the quote prior was transcribed as it was found in the original source, complete with errors, coloquialisms etc. 1  Belaon March 31, 2015 1:58 am.
The abbreviation cf. stands for the Latin word confer which means âcompare.â It is primarily used in endnotes or footnotes to point the reader to works that offer an argument which contradicts or is otherwise different from the authorâs argument.he abbreviation i.e. stands for id est, which translates literally as âthat is.â Sometimes it might be more useful, however, to translate it as âwhat that means isâ or âthat is to say.â This abbreviation is used to clarify the preceding idea by restating it more simply or in different terms.