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Definition of Constructions
1. construction [n] - See also: construction
Lexicographical Neighbors of Constructions
Literary usage of Constructions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Projective Geometry by Oswald Veblen, John Wesley Young (1918)
"Thus the discussion of linear and quadratic constructions, under the protective
... The constructions of elementary Euclidean geometry which are known as ..."
2. A Treatise on Universal Algebra: With Applications by Alfred North Whitehead, ( (1898)
"If the series is finite any point of the form a ± fSc can be constructed in a
finite number of constructions; if the series is infinite it can be ..."
3. Classical Weekly (1910)
"These statistics are grouped in the order of cases and constructions and in general
... Selected examples of the various constructions are? followed by an ..."
4. The Foundations of Geometry by David Hilbert (1902)
"GEOMETRICAL constructions BY MEANS OF A STRAIGHT-EDGE AND A TRANS- FERER OF ...
Upon the basis of the axioms of group I, the following constructions are ..."
5. Syntax of Early Latin by Charles Edwin Bennett (1914)
"They rarely take the accusative or prepositional phrases as alternative constructions.
Of the other compounds, those with com- show greater hospitality ..."
6. Theory and Applications of Finite Groups by George Abram Miller, Hans Frederick Blichfeldt, Leonard Eugene Dickson (1916)
"CHAPTER XVII constructions WITH RULER AND COMPASSES 168. Some Celebrated Problems
of Greek Origin. In the Delian problem of the duplication of a cube, ..."
7. The Law of Freedom and Bondage in the United States by John Codman Hurd (1862)
"According to the first of these constructions, these provisions have only the force
... These views will hereinafter be called constructions, because it is ..."
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