Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the property of not being changed in form by inversion: applied to curves and to the surfaces of solids, such as the sphere, which have the property of being their own inverse.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Math.) Not changed in form by inversion.
- adjective a class of curves of the fourth degree which have certain peculiar relations to circles; -- sometimes called
bicircular quartics . - adjective a certain class of surfaces of the fourth degree.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective mathematics Not changed in form by
inversion .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek privative + a change.
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Examples
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n. - graduated scale in figure-of-eight, showing difference between actual time and that shown by the sun. anallagmatic adj.
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