(mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane
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(geometry) the area created by a plane cutting through a solid
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(mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane
Used in the same subject area: Geometry, Mathematics.(mathematics) one of a set of parallel geometric figures (parallel lines or planes); "parallels never meet"
Used in the same subject area: Geometry, Mathematics.(mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape; "we will refer to the plane of the graph as the X-Y plane"; "any line joining two po…
Used in the same subject area: Geometry, Mathematics.(mathematics) a straight line extending from a point
Used in the same subject area: Geometry, Mathematics.(mathematics) a transformation in which the coordinate axes are rotated by a fixed angle about the origin
Used in the same subject area: Geometry, Mathematics.(mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape; "we will refer to the plane of the graph as the X-Y plane"; "any line joining two po…
Used in the same subject area: Geometry, Mathematics.(mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane
Used in the same subject area: Geometry, Mathematics.(mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane
Used in the same subject area: Geometry, Mathematics.(mathematics) a transformation in which the origin of the coordinate system is moved to another position but the direction of each axi…
Used in the same subject area: Geometry, Mathematics.the use of algebra to study geometric properties; operates on symbols defined in a coordinate system
Used in the same subject area: Geometry, Mathematics.the use of algebra to study geometric properties; operates on symbols defined in a coordinate system
Used in the same subject area: Geometry, Mathematics.the extent of a 2-dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary; "the area of a rectangle"; "it was about 500 square feet in area"
Used in the same subject area: Geometry, Mathematics.the use of algebra to study geometric properties; operates on symbols defined in a coordinate system
Used in the same subject area: Geometry, Mathematics.the extent of a 2-dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary; "the area of a rectangle"; "it was about 500 square feet in area"
Used in the same subject area: Geometry, Mathematics.the extent of a 2-dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary; "the area of a rectangle"; "it was about 500 square feet in area"
Used in the same subject area: Geometry, Mathematics.
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A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: geometry, area, created, plane, cutting.the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same ou…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: geometry, area, created, plane, cutting.the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same ou…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: geometry, area, created, plane, cutting.A curve invented by Diocles, for the purpose of solving two celebrated problems of the higher geometry; viz., to trisect a plane angle…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: geometry, area, created, plane, cutting.A solid of the form described by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of the sides adjacent to the right angle; -- call…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: geometry, area, created, plane, cutting.A diminutive of the bendlet, containing one half its area or one quarter the area of the bend. When a single cottise is used alone it…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: geometry, area, created, plane, cutting.Anything created; anything not self-existent; especially, any being created with life; an animal; a man.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: geometry, area, created, plane, cutting.the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: geometry, area, created, plane, cutting.the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: geometry, area, created, plane, cutting.the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same ou…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: geometry, area, created, plane, cutting.the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same ou…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: geometry, area, created, plane, cutting.(geometry) the interchangeability of the roles of points and planes in the theorems of projective geometry
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: geometry, area, created, plane, cutting.(mathematics) a non-Euclidean geometry that regards space as like a sphere and a line as like a great circle; "Bernhard Riemann pionee…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: geometry, area, created, plane, cutting.A Greek geometer of the 3d century b. c.; also, his treatise on geometry, and hence, the principles of geometry, in general.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: geometry, area, created, plane, cutting.the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: geometry, area, created, plane, cutting.the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: geometry, area, created, plane, cutting.(mathematics) the geometry of fractals; "Benoit Mandelbrot pioneered fractal geometry"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: geometry, area, created, plane, cutting.The part of a solid next the base, formed by cutting off the, top; or the part of any solid, as of a cone, pyramid, etc., between two…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: geometry, area, created, plane, cutting.
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