Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In geometry, a curve by means of which can be found straight lines equal to the circumference of circles or other curves and their several parts; a curve employed for finding the quadrature of other curves.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Geom.) A curve made use of in the quadrature of other curves.
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- noun mathematics A
curve havingordinates which are a measure of thearea (orquadrature ) of another curve.
Etymologies
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Latin quadrator, squarer
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Menaechmus, and by Nicomedes for squaring the circle, whence it got the name τετραγωνιζουσα {tetragônizousa}, _quadratrix_.
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