单词 | ambigenal |
释义 | † ambigenaladj. Geometry. Obsolete. rare. In ambigenal hyperbola: designating a curve resembling one branch of a hyperbola, one half crossing the asymptote before converging to it.In English, recorded only in dictionaries. The term originates with Isaac Newton who, in Enumeratio linearum tertii ordinis, gave such curves the name ambigena. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [adjective] > of mixed composition or character linsey-woolsey1565 mongrela1586 piebald1590 sundry1593 party per pale1607 mi-parti1610 hybridan1623 participle1694 ambigenal hyperbola1710 hybrida1716 mulish1729 hybridal1801 mulea1833 mixtiform1837 mongrelized1857 1710 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum II Ambigenal Hyperbola, is an Hyperbola which hath one of its infinite Legs inscrib'd in it, and the other circumscrib'd about it. 1823 J. Mitchell Dict. Math. & Physical Sci. 233/2 Hyperbolas receive various denominations from certain peculiarities in their construction, proportions, &c.; as acute, ambigenal, equilateral, &c. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020). < adj.1710 |
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