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Definition of Dirigent
1. a. Directing.
2. n. The line of motion along which a describent line or surface is carried in the genesis of any plane or solid figure; a directrix.
Definition of Dirigent
1. Noun. (geometry) The line of motion along which a describent line or surface is carried in the genesis of any plane or solid figure; a directrix. ¹
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Definition of Dirigent
1. directing [adj]
Medical Definition of Dirigent
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Dirigent
Literary usage of Dirigent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Solid Geometry by Percival Frost, Joseph Wolstenholme (1863)
"Again, r the equation of the umbilical dirigent conic, which is obviously the
polar reciprocal of tLo focal conic with respect to the principal section in ..."
2. The Collected Mathematical Papers of Arthur Cayley by Arthur Cayley (1896)
"We have four systems of a dirigent conic and circle of inversion, ... having its
centre on a dirigent conic, and cutting at right angles the corresponding ..."
3. Solid Geometry by Percival Frost (1875)
"To find the focal and dirigent conies for non-central surfaces. For the paraboloids,
comparing the equation with j- H — = 2z, we have \=1, b (1 -p. ..."
4. The Cambridge and Dublin Mathematical Journal by William Whewell, Duncan Farquharson Gregory, Robert Leslie Ellis, William Thomson Kelvin, Norman Macleod Ferrers (1848)
"Similarly, in surfaces of the second order the modular focal conic and its
corresponding dirigent cylinder have been shewn by Professor ..."
5. Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society by London Mathematical Society (1891)
"If a quadrilateral be circumscribed about a Jacobian and its corresponding dirigent
conic, the other three dirigent conies pass through the three pairs of ..."
6. The Cambridge and Dublin Mathematical Journal (1849)
"It is therefore still true that the ratio of the dirigent and focal distances is
represented by the modular radius. ..."
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