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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In the Bolyai geometry, a circle with infinitely great radius. Called by Lobachevski boundary-line (Grenzlinie) or oricycle; by Bolyai, the L line of S. See extract under
limitsurface .
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“Scenes are divided by slender Gothic columns, and other architectural features are tessellated floors and a sketchy sort of brick-work that appears wherever a limit-line is needed.”
“In fact, the limit-line of the two branches is not always easy to trace, so often are they grafted together; they inspire each other, intertwine, and at last are almost one.”
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