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单词 ambigenal
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ambigenaladj.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin ambigenus , -al suffix1.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin ambigenus (see ambigenous adj.) + -al suffix1.
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.
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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
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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).
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