Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The operation of dividing an algebraic equation by the coefficient of the term of the highest degree in the unknown.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Alg.), obsolete The division of the terms of an equation by a known quantity that is involved in the first term.
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- noun obsolete, mathematics The
division of theterms of anequation by a knownquantity that is involved in the first term.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Metaphor and simile are only the more obvious outriders of this inherent semantic doubleness, this parabolism.
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"Hasn't it occurred to you that all you have to do is to bend an X-ray to an angle-value of 8.4 and refract it with a parabolism, and there you are?"
Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete Albert Bigelow Paine 1899
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"Hasn't it occurred to you that all you have to do is to bend an X-ray to an angle-value of 8.4 and refract it with a parabolism, and there you are?"
Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume III, Part 2: 1907-1910 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899
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“Hasn’t it occurred to you that all you have to do is to bend an X-ray to an angle-value of 8.4 and refract it with a parabolism, and there you are?”
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