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Word Meanings - UNICURSAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That can be passed over in a single course; -- said of a curve when the coördinates of the point on the curve can be expressed as rational algebraic functions of a single parameter th. Note: As th varies minus infinity to plus infinity, to each

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That can be passed over in a single course; -- said of a curve when the coördinates of the point on the curve can be expressed as rational algebraic functions of a single parameter th. Note: As th varies minus infinity to plus infinity, to each value of th there corresponds one, and only one, point of the curve, while to each point on the curve there corresponds one, and only one, value of th. Straight lines, conic sections, curves of the third order with a nodal point, curves of the fourth order with three double points, etc., are unicursal.

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  • PASS
    passer, LL. passare, fr. L. passus step, or from pandere, passum, to 1. To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal phrase defining the kind
  • RATIONALIZATION
    The act or process of rationalizing.
  • MINUS
    Less; requiring to be subtracted; negative; as, a minus quantity. Minus sign , the sign denoting minus, or less, prefixed to negative quantities, or quantities to be subtracted. See Negative sign, under Negative.
  • SINGLE-BREASTED
    Lapping over the breast only far enough to permit of buttoning, and having buttons on one edge only; as, a single-breasted coast.
  • RATIONALISTIC; RATIONALISTICAL
    Belonging to, or in accordance with, the principles of rationalism. -- Ra`tion*al*is"tic*al*ly, adv.
  • PASSOVER
    A feast of the Jews, instituted to commemorate the sparing of the Hebrews in Egypt, when God, smiting the firstborn of the Egyptians, passed over the houses of the Israelites which were marked with the blood of a lamb. The sacrifice offered at
  • PASSUS
    A division or part; a canto; as, the passus of Piers Plowman. See 2d Fit.
  • COURSED
    1. Hunted; as, a coursed hare. 2. Arranged in courses; as, coursed masonry.
  • PASSIBILITY
    The quality or state of being passible; aptness to feel or suffer; sensibility. Hakewill.
  • POINT SWITCH
    A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track.
  • POINTLESSLY
    Without point.
  • PASSIONAL
    Of or pertaining to passion or the passions; exciting, influenced by, or ministering to, the passions. -- n.
  • PASSIVE FLIGHT
    Flight, such as gliding and soaring, accomplished without the use of motive power.
  • POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
    Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis
  • COURSE
    1. The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage. And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais. Acts xxi. 7. 2. THe ground or path traversed; track; way. The same horse also run the round course at Newmarket.
  • POINTAL
    The pistil of a plant. 2. A kind of pencil or style used with the tablets of the Middle Ages. "A pair of tablets . . . and a pointel." Chaucer.
  • POINTED
    1. Sharp; having a sharp point; as, a pointed rock. 2. Characterized by sharpness, directness, or pithiness of expression; terse; epigrammatic; especially, directed to a particular person or thing. His moral pleases, not his pointed wit. Pope.
  • SINGLE-ACTING
    Having simplicity of action; especially , acting or exerting force during strokes in one direction only; -- said of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.
  • CURVE
    Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.
  • PASSENGER MILE
    A unit of measurement of the passenger transportation performed by a railroad during a given period, usually a year, the total of which consists of the sum of the miles traversed by all the passengers on the road in the period in question.
  • COMPASSIONATELY
    In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
  • COVER-POINT
    The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
  • SURPASS
    To go beyond in anything good or bad; to exceed; to excel. This would surpass Common revenge and interrupt his joy. Milton. Syn. -- To exceed; excel; outdo; outstrip.
  • IRRATIONAL
    Not capable of being exactly expressed by an integral number, or by a vulgar fraction; surd; -- said especially of roots. See Surd. Syn. -- Absurd; foolish; preposterous; unreasonable; senseless. See Absurd. (more info) 1. Not rational; void of
  • RECOURSEFUL
    Having recurring flow and ebb; moving alternately. Drayton.
  • OUTPASSION
    To exceed in passion.
  • INCOMPASSIONATE
    Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n.
  • REPASS
    To pass again; to pass or travel over in the opposite direction; to pass a second time; as, to repass a bridge or a river; to repass the sea.
  • SURPASSING
    Eminently excellent; exceeding others. "With surpassing glory crowned." Milton. -- Sur*pass"ing*ly, adv. -- Sur*pass"ing*ness, n.
  • TROIS POINT
    The third point from the outer edge on each player's home table.

 

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