Definition of Homographic

1. a. Employing a single and separate character to represent each sound; -- said of certain methods of spelling words.

Definition of Homographic

1. Adjective. Spelt identically. ¹

2. Adjective. Employing a single and separate character to represent each sound. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Homographic

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Homographic

1. 1. Employing a single and separate character to represent each sound; said of certain methods of spelling words. 2. Possessing the property of homography. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Homographic

homogentisic acid
homogentisic acid oxidase
homogeny
homoglycan
homoglycans
homoglyph
homoglyphs
homogonies
homogonous
homogony
homograft
homograft reaction
homografts
homograph
homographic (current term)
homographs
homography
homoheptamer
homoheptameric
homoheptamers
homohexamer
homohexameric
homohexamers
homoi-
homoiconic
homoiconicity
homoimerous
homoio-
homoiohydric

Literary usage of Homographic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Elementary Treatise on Modern Pure Geometry by Robert Lachlan (1893)
"situated on the same, or on different lines, are said to be homographic, when the cross ratio of any four points of one range is equal to the cross ratio of ..."

2. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy by Royal Irish Academy (1883)
"It will be found to have points of connexion with the modern higher geometry ; in particular the theory of homographic Screws is specially connected with ..."

3. An Elementary Treatise on Pure Geometry with Numerous Examples by John Wellesley Russell (1905)
"The points of contact of two homographic sets of tangents are homographic ranges; and, conversely, the tangents at points of two homographic ranges on a ..."

4. An Introduction to the Ancient and Modern Geometry of Conics: Being a by Charles Taylor (1881)
"Cayley contributed to my article on the homographic Transformation of Angles in the Quarterly Journal of Mathematici xiv. 25—39. homographic TRANSFORMATION. ..."

5. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences by California Academy of Sciences (1903)
"are then homographic, and generate a conic. ... Since a pair of homographic pencils determine a conic through their vertices as the locus of the ..."

6. Theory of Functions of a Complex Variable by Andrew Russell Forsyth (1893)
"homographic [258. 258. The preceding examples* may be sufficient to indicate the kind of correlation between two planes or assigned portions of two planes ..."

7. A Treatise on Universal Algebra: With Applications by Alfred North Whitehead (1898)
"e2> be the corresponding points on a second range homographic to the first range. Then (aX) (£«/)/(*>«•/) (K) = (A AO (^^')/(A A') foA')- Therefore f /f and ..."

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