Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In mathematics, a normal to two consecutive elements of a curve in space; a normal perpendicular to the osculating plane.

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  • noun mathematics A line that is at right angles to both the normal and the tangent of a point on a curve and, together with them, forms three cartesian axes

Etymologies

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bi- +‎ normal

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Examples

  • I think ICE is not suitable, it is very unlikely that the calibration data is a sample from binormal distribution check the residuals..

    Juckes Omnibus « Climate Audit 2006

  • · Optimization - normal, tangent, binormal calcs done at load time for bsp surfaces.

    Softpedia - Windows - All 2009

  • As far as the resizing (interpolation), I have no idea how lanczos works, I sorta know how bicubic and binormal work, but then again, I could just let the video card handle it (which was my initial thought).

    Doom9's Forum 2008

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