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Conchoid

A curve, of the fourth degree, first made use of by the Greek geometer, Nicomedes, who invented it for the purpose of trisecting an angle and duplicating the cube.

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Curve 76% connected

Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.

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A unknown · 78% connection

The first letter of the English and of many other alphabets. The capital A of the alphabets of Middle and Western Europe, as also the…

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Accusative adjective · 78% connection

Applied to the case (as the fourth case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses the immediate object on which the action or influenc…

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Acnode noun · 78% connection

An isolated point not upon a curve, but whose coordinates satisfy the equation of the curve so that it is considered as belonging to t…

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Angular adjective · 78% connection

Relating to an angle or to angles; having an angle or angles; forming an angle or corner; sharp-cornered; pointed; as, an angular figu…

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Bell crank unknown · 78% connection

A lever whose two arms form a right angle, or nearly a right angle, having its fulcrum at the apex of the angle. It is used in bell pu…

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Bevel noun · 78% connection

Any angle other than a right angle; the angle which one surface makes with another when they are not at right angles; the slant or inc…

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Cissoid noun · 78% connection

A curve invented by Diocles, for the purpose of solving two celebrated problems of the higher geometry; viz., to trisect a plane angle…

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Cubical adjective · 78% connection

Having the form or properties of a cube; contained, or capable of being contained, in a cube.

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Curvature noun · 78% connection

the rate of change (at a point) of the angle between a curve and a tangent to the curve

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Czechs n. pl. · 78% connection

The most westerly branch of the great Slavic family of nations, numbering now more than 6,000,000, and found principally in Bohemia an…

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Diameter noun · 78% connection

Any right line passing through the center of a figure or body, as a circle, conic section, sphere, cube, etc., and terminated by the o…

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Duplication noun · 78% connection

The act of duplicating, or the state of being duplicated; a doubling; a folding over; a fold.

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Duplicative adjective · 78% connection

Having the quality of duplicating or doubling.

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Euclid noun · 78% connection

A Greek geometer of the 3d century b. c.; also, his treatise on geometry, and hence, the principles of geometry, in general.

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Evolute noun · 78% connection

A curve from which another curve, called the involute or evolvent, is described by the end of a thread gradually wound upon the former…

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Fiction noun · 78% connection

That which is feigned, invented, or imagined; especially, a feigned or invented story, whether oral or written. Hence: A story told in…

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Geometrician noun · 78% connection

One skilled in geometry; a geometer; a mathematician.

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Glissette noun · 78% connection

The locus described by any point attached to a curve that slips continuously on another fixed curve, the movable curve having no rotat…

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