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Axis
noun · 78% connection
A straight line with respect to which the different parts of a magnitude are symmetrically arranged; as, the axis of a cylinder, i. e.…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: half, diameter, right, line, length.
Center
noun · 78% connection
A point equally distant from the extremities of a line, figure, or body, or from all parts of the circumference of a circle; the middl…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: half, diameter, right, line, length.
Central
adjective · 78% connection
Relating to the center; situated in or near the center or middle; containing the center; of or pertaining to the parts near the center…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: half, diameter, right, line, length.
Circle
noun · 78% connection
A plane figure, bounded by a single curve line called its circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within it…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: half, diameter, right, line, length.
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…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: half, diameter, right, line, length.
Dimension
noun · 78% connection
Measure in a single line, as length, breadth, height, thickness, or circumference; extension; measurement; -- usually, in the plural,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: half, diameter, right, line, length.
Eccentric
adjective · 78% connection
Deviating or departing from the center, or from the line of a circle; as, an eccentric or elliptical orbit; pertaining to deviation fr…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: half, diameter, right, line, length.
Ellipse
noun · 78% connection
An oval or oblong figure, bounded by a regular curve, which corresponds to an oblique projection of a circle, or an oblique section of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: half, diameter, right, line, length.
Epicycle
noun · 78% connection
A circle, whose center moves round in the circumference of a greater circle; or a small circle, whose center, being fixed in the defer…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: half, diameter, right, line, length.
Epicycloid
noun · 78% connection
A curve traced by a point in the circumference of a circle which rolls on the convex side of a fixed circle.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: half, diameter, right, line, length.
Equant
noun · 78% connection
A circle around whose circumference a planet or the center of ann epicycle was conceived to move uniformly; -- called also eccentric e…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: half, diameter, right, line, length.
Equator
noun · 78% connection
The great circle of the celestial sphere, coincident with the plane of the earth's equator; -- so called because when the sun is in it…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: half, diameter, right, line, length.
Function
noun · 78% connection
A quantity so connected with another quantity, that if any alteration be made in the latter there will be a consequent alteration in t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: half, diameter, right, line, length.
Geodesic
noun · 78% connection
(mathematics) the shortest line between two points on a mathematically defined surface (as a straight line on a plane or an arc of a g…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: half, diameter, right, line, length.
Geodesic line
noun · 78% connection
(mathematics) the shortest line between two points on a mathematically defined surface (as a straight line on a plane or an arc of a g…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: half, diameter, right, line, length.
Half
adverb · 78% connection
In an equal part or degree; in some pa/ appro/mating a half; partially; imperfectly; as, half-colored, half done, half-hearted, half p…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: half, diameter, right, line, length.
Half-ray
noun · 78% connection
A straight line considered as drawn from a center to an indefinite distance in one direction, the complete ray being the whole line dr…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: half, diameter, right, line, length.
Hemisphere
noun · 78% connection
A half sphere; one half of a sphere or globe, when divided by a plane passing through its center.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: half, diameter, right, line, length.
