Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The operation of dividing an algebraic equation by the coefficient of the term of the highest degree in the unknown.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete, mathematics The division of the terms of an equation by a known quantity that is involved in the first term.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Alg.), obsolete The division of the terms of an equation by a known quantity that is involved in the first term.
Etymologies
- parabola + -ism (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Metaphor and simile are only the more obvious outriders of this inherent semantic doubleness, this parabolism.”
“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?”
““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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