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Definition of Rectifying
1. rectify [v] - See also: rectify
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rectifying
Literary usage of Rectifying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Analytic Geometry of Three Dimensions by George Salmon (1862)
"in the last article; and therefore that the rectifying line is the axis of that
... The rectifying line may be therefore constructed by drawing in the ..."
2. A Treatise on the Analytic Geometry of Three Dimensions by George Salmon (1882)
"therefore constructed by drawing in the rectifying plane a Hue making with the
tangent ... The rectifying surface is the surface of centres of the original ..."
3. A Treatise on the Analytic Geometry of Three Dimensions by George Salmon (1882)
"Imagine that through every line of the system there is drawn a plane perpendicular
to the corresponding osculating plane, this is called a rectifying plane, ..."
4. A Treatise on the Analytic Geometry of Three Dimensions by George Salmon (1874)
"The intersection of two consecutive planes of the rectifying developable is the
rectifying line. Now, since the plane passing through the edge of a right ..."
5. A Treatise on the Analytic Geometry of Three Dimensions by George Salmon (1865)
"The intersection of two consecutive planes of the rectifying developable is the
rec.tifying line. Now since the plane passing through the edge of a right ..."
6. Elements of Quaternions by William Rowan Hamilton (1866)
"... expressed as an angle, to the. arc of the curve itself; and shall assign the
quaternion equations of the known rectifying Plane, and rectifying Line, ..."
7. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"('3) Stills with rectifying 'wash-warmer.' This is a device invented by Dorn, in
which the vessel through which the vapor pipe passes is divided into two ..."
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