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Definition of Cathetus
1. n. One line or radius falling perpendicularly on another; as, the catheti of a right-angled triangle, that is, the two sides that include the right angle.
Definition of Cathetus
1. Noun. (geometry) A line perpendicular to a surface (or line); in particular, either of the sides of a right triangle other than its hypotenuse. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cathetus
1. a perpendicular line [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cathetus
Literary usage of Cathetus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1857)
"... they are thrown on the ocular or anterior cathetus, also shaped like a lens.
The distance between the objective glass and the eye is consequently but ..."
2. Principles of Architecture: Comprising Fundamental Rules of the Art, with by Peter Nicholson (1848)
"PROBLEM X. The cathetus CA of the spiral from the centre с being given, to describe
it to any number of revolutions to touch a given circle whose centre is ..."
3. Cyclopedia of Architecture, Carpentry, and Building: A General Reference by American Technical Society (1916)
"Divide into two equal parts the two radii of the eye which coincide with the
cathetus, CD giving the points 1 and 4, and here construct a square of 1, 2, 3, ..."
4. Cyclopedia of Architecture, Carpentry and Building: A General Reference Work by American School, (Chicago, Ill.) (1907)
"Divide into two equal parts the two radii of the eye which coincide with the
cathetus, CD giving the points 1 and 4, and here construct a square of 1,2, 3, ..."
5. The Study of the Orders by Frank C. Brown (2002)
"Divide into two equal parts the two radii of the eye which coincide with the
cathetus, CD giving the points 1 and 4, and here construct a square of 1, 2, 3, ..."
6. Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and (1823)
"cathetus, in Geometry, a line or radins falling perpendicularly on another line or
... cathetus of Reflection, or ofthe Eye, a right line drawn from the eye ..."
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