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Definition of Perps
1. perp [n] - See also: perp
Lexicographical Neighbors of Perps
Literary usage of Perps
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Key to the Exercises and Examples Contained in a Text-book of Euclid's by Henry Sinclair Hall, Frederick Haller Stevens (1892)
"26] that the perps. from A, B, C, ... to MN are respectively equal to the perps.
drawn from T to the corresponding sides of the outer polygon. ..."
2. Cassell's Engineer's Handbook: Comprising Facts and Formulæ, Principles and by Henry Adams (1907)
"Coefficient of fineness == • 55 to • 70. tons displacement X 35 length between
perps. X beam X mean draught less depth keel Coefficient of water lines = -63 ..."
3. The Civil Engineer's Pocket-book by John Cresson Trautwine (1907)
"Add together these two perps ; mult tbe sum by the diag ; div the prod by 2.
Having the four sides ; and either pair of opposite angles, as nbc, ..."
4. The Elements of Euclid: Viz. the First Six Books, Together with the Eleventh by Euclid, Robert Simson (1892)
"From Z and Y draw perp* to AB, AC; these perps, since they cannot be parallel,
... Hence the three perps OX, OY, OZ meet in the point O. 2. ..."
5. A Treatise on Spherical Trigonometry: With Applications to Spherical by William John McClelland, Thomas Preston (1893)
"... cos * a cos * b cos * e ; product of sines of perps. on sides and for a polygon
of u sides this ratio is equal to COS 5 «i COS 5 a2 COS 3 as . ..."
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