Definition of Limacons

1. limacon [n] - See also: limacon

Lexicographical Neighbors of Limacons

lim sups
lima
lima bean
lima bean plant
lima beans
limacel
limacels
limaceous
limaces
limacide
limacides
limacina
limacine
limacoid
limacon
limacons (current term)
limail
limails
liman
limans
limaon
limas
limation
limations
limax
limaçon
limaçon of Pascal
limaçons of Pascal
limb

Literary usage of Limacons

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

1. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1889)
"(1) On the Potentials of the surfaces formed by the revolution of limacons and Cardioids about their axes. By AB BASSET, II. A. 1. ..."

2. Magazine of Natural History edited by John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson (1832)
"Nous en reparlerons en traitant des limacons." (Histoire, p. 42.) " The large species of the genera Arion and Z/imax (particularly in Paris and its environs ..."

3. The History of North America by Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe (1905)
"... limacons), which are called bur- gaux; they are very useful for making handsome tobacco boxes, for they bear their mother-of-pearl with them. ..."

4. An Elementary Treatise on the Differential Calculus: Containing the Theory by Benjamin Williamson (1899)
"Prove that the locus of the vertex of an angle of given magnitude, whose sides touch two given circles, is composed of two limacons. 9. ..."

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