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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Geology A thin, leaflike layer or stratum occurring especially in metamorphic rock.
  2. n. Mathematics A plane cubic curve having a single loop, a node, and two ends asymptotic to the same line.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A leaf; a lamina; a lamella; a layer.
  2. n. In geometry, a loop, being a part of a curve terminated at both ends by the same node.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A leaf, especially a thin leaf or plate.
  2. n. geometry A curve of the third order, consisting of two infinite branches having a common asymptote. The curve has a double point, and a leaf-shaped loop.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A leaf, esp. a thin leaf or plate.
  2. n. (Geom.) A curve of the third order, consisting of two infinite branches, which have a common asymptote. The curve has a double point, and a leaf-shaped loop; whence the name. Its equation is x3 + y3 = axy.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a thin layer or stratum of (especially metamorphic) rock

Etymologies

  1. Latin, a leaf. (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin, leaf. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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