Mathematics. That generates a certain figure or solid when moved conceptually in a certain way. Frequently in generating circle, generating line, etc.

Mathematics. Involving the unknown quantity or variable as an exponent, or as part of an exponent. So exponential equation, exponential function…

Mathematics. Of a function: not continuous, not varying smoothly for all values of the independent variable. Cf. continuous function n. at continuous…

Mathematics. Of, involving or relating to a function or functions; designating a mathematical relation that is a function. Cf. function, n. 5a.

Mathematics. Of a function of one variable: having the property that changing the sign of the argument changes the sign, but not the magnitude…

Mathematics. Of a function: such that the dependent variable returns to the same value at constant intervals of the independent variable…

Of, pertaining to, or constituting a syzygy (syzygy, n. 5).

Mathematics. Of a plane figure, a solid, a set (of points), etc.: containing the straight line segment joining any two points in the set. Of a…

Applied by Clifford to a class of functions which pertain equally to graphic and metric geometry. Hence as n., a graphometric function.

Mathematics. Relating to or involving more than one closed curve.

Mathematics. Of a function y of a variable x: such that, where Y and X are rational functions of y and x respectively, Y is determined to be a…

Mathematics. = analytic, adj. 2b. Now chiefly historical.

Marked or characterized by, dealing with or concerning, variation, in various senses; spec. with reference to variation, n. 13b.

Mathematics and Crystallography. Of, relating to, or involving a polyhedron or polyhedra.

Mathematics. Said of a function which is monogenic, uniform, and continuous.

Mathematics. In A. Cayley's terminology: designating a branch point of a multivalued function. Obsolete. rare.

Applied (by Cayley) to the function (denoted by the letters gd) defined by the equation x = log tan (1/4 π + 1/2 gd x).

Mathematics. = monogenic, adj.1 4. Obsolete.

Mathematics. = monotonic, adj. 2. Cf. monotone, n. 3.

Mathematics. Of a series or function: increasing and decreasing without tending to a limit or diverging as successive terms are taken (in the case of…

Mathematics and Science. Of a function of a real variable: varying so that as the value of the variable increases, the value of the function may…

Mathematics. = monotonic, adj. 2. Cf. monotonous, adj. 3.

That has been made orthogonal. Cf. orthogonalize, v.

Designating any holomorphic one-to-one function defined on a disk in the complex plane; spec. (in later use) one that is defined on the unit disk…

Mathematics. Of a plane figure, a solid, a set (of points), etc.: not convex (convex, adj. n.additions). Of a function: such that its negative is…

Of a logical function: containing no variable in both negated and unnegated forms.