Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A form of mathematical proposition among the Greeks, concerning the nature of which there continues to be much dispute.
- noun Synonyms See
inference .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Geom.) A proposition affirming the possibility of finding such conditions as will render a certain determinate problem indeterminate or capable of innumerable solutions.
- noun (Gr. Geom.) A corollary.
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- noun geometry A
proposition affirming the possibility of finding such conditions as will render a certaindeterminate problemindeterminate or capable ofinnumerable solutions . - noun A
corollary .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek πόρισμα (porisma, "a deduction from a previous demonstration").
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