Cyclopædia
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ANTEPREDICAMENTShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/logics/ANTEPREDICAMENTS
ANTEPREDICAMENTS, in Logic, certain previous Matters, requisite to a more easy and clear apprehension of the Doctrine of Predicaments or Categories. Such are Definitions of Common Terms; as Equivocals, Univocals, etc., with Divisions of Things, their...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Logics
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DYADIC ARITHMETIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/DYADIC%20ARITHMETIC
BINARY, or DYADIC ARITHMETIC, is that wherein only two Figures, Unity, or 1, and 0, are used. See BINARY ARITHMETIC. M. Dangicourt, in the Berlin Miscell., gives us a Specimen of the Use hereof in Arithmetical Progressions; where he shows, that the Laws...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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AMBLYGONOUS Anglehttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/AMBLYGONOUS%20Angle
AMBLYGONOUS Angle, in Geometry, is an obtuse Angle; or an Angle consisting of more than 90 Degrees. See ANGLE, and OBTUSE. A Triangle is said to be Amblygonous, when it has one Angle greater than a right Angle. See TRIANGLE. The Word is Greek; composed...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Geometry
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ARRESTANDIS Bonis ne dissipentur,a Writ which lies for him whose Cattle or Goods are taken by another, who, during the Controversy, makes, or is likely to make them away, and will hardly be able to give Satisfaction for them afterwards. ARRESTANDIS...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ANGLES OF A BATTALION, in the Military Art, are the Soldiers where the Ranks and Files terminate. See BATTALION. The Angles of a Battalion are said to be blunted, when the Soldiers at the four Corners are removed, so that the square Battalion becomes...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Military art
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TETRACTYC ARITHMETIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/TETRACTYC%20ARITHMETIC
TETRACTYC ARITHMETIC, is that wherein only the Figures 1, 2, 3, and 0, are used. We have a Treatise of this Arithmetic, by Erhard Weigel: But both Binary and this are little better than Curiosities, especially with regard to Practice; inasmuch, as the...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified