Lexicographical Neighbors of Proportionals
Literary usage of Proportionals
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Treatise on Conic Sections by Apollonius, Thomas Little Heath (1896)
"Now, in the construction for two mean proportionals which is attributed to
Apollonius, we find this very circle used, and we must therefore assume that he ..."
2. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas Hobbes (1839)
"PART n. Of proportionals, is the same with the addition and subtraction of them.
Coroll. v. If there be four proportionals, ..."
3. The Republic of Plato by Plato, Benjamin Jowett (1881)
"The first series of numbers is 8 : 12 : : 18 : 27, or the cubes of 2 and 3 with
their mean proportionals. The first harmony is ( * x 5)* - i oo x |? = -i^. ..."
4. A Philosophical and Mathematical Dictionary: Containing an Explanation of by Charles Hutton (1815)
"See proportionals. Rute о/PROPORTION, in Arithmetic, a rule by which a 4th term
is found in proportion to three given terms. It is popularly called the ..."
5. A Manual of the Principles and Practice of Road-making: Comprising the by William Mitchell Gillespie (1871)
"CALCULATION BY MEAN proportionals. A fourth method, called that of " Mean
proportionals," is sometimes, though very improperly,employed. ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"If four quantities be proportionals, the product of the ... The principal properties
of four proportionals are the following : from the nature of ..."
7. A Budget of Paradoxes by Augustus De Morgan (1915)
"When 5 and 20 are given, x is a mean proportional when in 5, x, 20, 5 is to x as
x to 20. And x must be 10. But x and y are two mean proportionals when in 5 ..."
8. Geometry, Plane, Solid, and Spherical, in Six Books: To which is Added, in by Pierce Morton (1830)
"If A, В, С,D be proportionals, and if any like parts of the first and third be
taken, and also any like parts of the second and fourth, these like parts ..."
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