单词 | point saillant |
释义 | point saillantn. Geometry. rare. A point at which two branches of a curve meet and terminate, and at which they do not have a common tangent. ΚΠ 1852 I. Todhunter Diff. Calculus xxii. 281 A point saillant is a point at which two branches of a curve meet and stop without having a common tangent. 1958 Van Nostrand's Sci. Encycl. (ed. 3) 1504 Salient point or point saillant, two branches of the curve end without a continuous derivative, thus without a common tangent. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1852 |
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