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from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to Arthur Cayley, an English mathematician (1821–95).
- noun In mathematics, a curve of the sixth order and third class, invented by the English mathematician Arthur Cayley (1853), and called by him the pippian. It is the envelop of the pairs of right lines which constitute polar conics relative to any cubic curve.
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