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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Geom.) A curve in the form of the figure 8, with both parts symmetrical, generated by the point in which a tangent to an equilateral hyperbola meets the perpendicular on it drawn from the center.
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- noun Archaic form of
lemniscate . (type of curve)
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For Dr. Bledsoe was an enthusiastic advocate of Secession, to such an extent that he would not infrequently interlard his demonstration of some difficult problem in differential or integral calculus -- for example, the lemniscata of Bernouilli -- with some vigorous remarks in the doctrine of States 'rights.
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Herschel, forms a _lemniscata_; but the experimental proof was here, as in numberless other cases, preceded by the deduction which showed that, according to the undulatory theory, the bands must possess this special character.
Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 John Tyndall 1856
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