The British Encyclopedia, Or Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge : Illustrated with Upwards of 150 Elegant Engravings. N - R. 5Longman, 1809 - 680 pages |
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... absciss . When this line is a diameter of the curve , the property of the ordinates is then the most remarkable ; for , in the curves of the first kind , or the conic sections and circle , the ordinates are all bisected by the dia ...
... absciss . When this line is a diameter of the curve , the property of the ordinates is then the most remarkable ; for , in the curves of the first kind , or the conic sections and circle , the ordinates are all bisected by the dia ...
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... abscisses , is to define or express the nature of a curve by means of the gene- ral relation or equation between them ... absciss , also ab c , & c . given quan- tities : then y = ax2 + bx + c is the ge- neral equation for the lines of ...
... abscisses , is to define or express the nature of a curve by means of the gene- ral relation or equation between them ... absciss , also ab c , & c . given quan- tities : then y = ax2 + bx + c is the ge- neral equation for the lines of ...
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... absciss HF , and the parameter of the axis , or to four times the rectangle HFB . 1. When the diameter is the axis ; let DH be perpendicular B C , join DC , and draw DA perpendicular A B , and let F be the vertex of the axis . Then ...
... absciss HF , and the parameter of the axis , or to four times the rectangle HFB . 1. When the diameter is the axis ; let DH be perpendicular B C , join DC , and draw DA perpendicular A B , and let F be the vertex of the axis . Then ...
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... absciss is u x2 + bx + c , and an d hyperbola whose absciss is for y will be equal to the sum or difference of the corres- pondent ordinates of this parabola and hy- perbola . PARABOLA , diverging , a name given by Sir Isaac Newton to ...
... absciss is u x2 + bx + c , and an d hyperbola whose absciss is for y will be equal to the sum or difference of the corres- pondent ordinates of this parabola and hy- perbola . PARABOLA , diverging , a name given by Sir Isaac Newton to ...
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... absciss , as 2 to 3 ; to a triangle inscribed on the ordinate as a base , it is as 4 to 3 . Every parabolical and paraboloidical space is to the rectangle of the semi - ordinate into the absciss , as r x y ( m + r ) to xy ; that is , as ...
... absciss , as 2 to 3 ; to a triangle inscribed on the ordinate as a base , it is as 4 to 3 . Every parabolical and paraboloidical space is to the rectangle of the semi - ordinate into the absciss , as r x y ( m + r ) to xy ; that is , as ...
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