Cyclopædia
Assuming ordinate is required, the following 21 results were found.
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ORDINATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ORDINATION
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ORDINATEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ORDINATES
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ORDINANCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ORDINANCE
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ORDINATE Ratiohttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ORDINATE-Ratio
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ORDINATE in a Parabolahttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ORDINATE-in-a-Parabola
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ORDINALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ORDINAL
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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AXIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AXIS
from its sides. Axis of a conic section, is a right line passing through the middle of the figure, and cutting all the ordinates at right angles. See CONIC SECTION. Thus if AP, Tab. Conics, Fig. 31. be drawn perpendicularly to MN, so as to divide the...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ASYMPTOTEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/ASYMPTOTE
described. —Suppose a right Line DE (Tab. Conicks, Fig. 20.) drawn through the Vertex A of the Hyperbola, parallel to the Ordinates Mm, and equal to the Conjugate Axes, viz. the Part DA, and that AE to the Semi-axis: Then, two right Lines drawn from the...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Geometry
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APPLICATEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/APPLICATE
Applicata, Ordinate Applicate, in Geometry, is a right Line drawn across a Curve, so as to bisect the Diameter thereof. See CURVE, DIAMETER, etc. Applicate is the same with what we otherwise call Ordinate. See ORDINATE. APPLICATE
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Geometry
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VIEW OF KNOWLEDGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/view-of-knowledge
Caustic, Evolute, quadratrix, &c. Circumstances thereof, as Axis, Diameter, Radius, Centre, Circumference, Absciss, Ordinate, &c. Arch, Chord, Sine, Tangent, Secant, &c. Instruments used herein, as Artificial Lines, Canons, &c. Operations arising...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Introduction
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ASSIZEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSIZE
ASSIZE, or Assise, Assisa,in Law, a sitting of Judges, or Justices; for the hearing and determining of Causes. See JUDGE, JUSTICE, CAUSE, etc. The Word is French, Assise, of Ais, seated; formed of Assideo, I sit by; which is compounded of ad, to, and...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ANGLE IN A SEMICIRCLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANGLE%20IN%20A%20SEMICIRCLE
have imagined.—Sir Isaac Newton shows, that if the Curve HAE, fig.97. be a cubic Parabola, the Angle of Contact, where the Ordinate DF is in the subtiple Ratio of the Abscissa AD, the Angle BAF contained under the Tangent AB in its Vertex, and the...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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Theologyhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/theology
THEOLOGY, or the Consideration of GOD: his Nature and Attributes, as Eternity, Ubiquity, &c. His Unity, Trinity, &c. Persons, Hypostasis. &c. Our Duty to him, discover'd by Inspiration, Revelation, Prophecy, &c. by the Mesiah, Evangelisis, Apostles,...
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AERIANShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/AERIANS
AERIANS, AERIANS, in Antiquity, a Sect in Religion, denominated from Aerius; a Person alive in the Time of St. Epiphanius. The Aerians had much the same Sentiments, in respect of the Trinity, as the Arians; besides which, they had some Dogmas of their...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Chronology
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ARMORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARMOR
ARMOR, or Armour, a defensive habit, wherewith to cover and secure the Body from the attacks of an enemy. See ARMS. Such are the Buckler, Cuirass, Helmet, Coat of Mail, Gauntlet, etc. See BUCKLER, CUIRASS, HELMET, etc. A complete Armor anciently...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ABSOLUTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ABSOLUTION
ABSOLUTION, ABSOLUTIO, in the Civil Law, &c. a definitive Sentence, whereby a Person accused of any Crime, &c. is acquitted, and declared Innocent. Among the Romans, the ordinary Method of pronouncing Judgment was this : After the Cause had been pleaded...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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AFFIRMATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AFFIRMATION
AFFIRMATION, Affirmatio, a positive Proposition, alleging the Truth of something. See PROPOSITION, and TRUTH. Affirmation is defined by the Logicians, an Act whereby we attribute one Idea to another; as supposing it to belong, or agree thereto—As when,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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Geometryhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry
Caustic, Evolute, quadratrix, &c. Circumstances thereof, as Axis, Diameter, Radius, Centre, Circumference, Absciss, Ordinate, &c. Arch, Chord, Sine, Tangent, Secant, &c. Instruments used herein, as Artificial Lines, Canons, &c. Operations arising...
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Ahttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/grammar/A
A Vowel, and the first Letter of the English Alphabet. See LETTER, VOWEL, and ALPHABET ; where what relates to A, consider'd in each of those Capacities, is delivered. The Grammarians will needs have A the first Letter in all Languages ; and some of...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Grammar
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ABSOLUTEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ABSOLUTE
is understood of something that is free, or independent of another. Hence, as there are various ways wherein one thing may be consider'd is free in respect of another, there arise divers sorts of Absolutes. Absolute, e. g. sometimes imports a Thing...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Philosophy