Cyclopædia
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CONJUGATE Diameterhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/CONJUGATE-Diameter
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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AXIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AXIS
or principal axis of an ellipse or hyperbola, is the axis AP, last defined: being thus called in contradistinction to the conjugate or secondary axis. The transverse axis in the ellipse is the longest; in the hyperbola it cuts the curve in the centre....
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ERRATAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php?view=article&id=3:ERRATA&catid=1209640500
Ellipsis, line 2. for Circle, read Curve. Reclangle, line 22. for Fig. 41. read Fig, 61. Rectification of a Parabola, for Conjugate Axes read Conjugate Semiaxes ; and after Hyperbolic Space, add CQMA. Rectification of the Cycloid, line 1. insert Fig....
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Introduction
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ANOMALOUShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANOMALOUS
ANOMALOUS, q.d. Irregular; something that deviates from the ordinary Rule and Method of other things of the same kind. See RULE, etc. The Word is not compounded of the privative α, and νόμος, Nomos, Law, as is usually imagined; for whence, on such a...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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AUXILIARYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AUXILIARY
to trust more to his own soldiers, than to auxiliary troops, etc. Auxiliary verbs, in grammar, are such as help to form or conjugate others; that is, are prefixed to them to form or denote the mood and tense thereof. See VERB, CONJUGATION, etc. Such, in...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ASYMPTOTEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/ASYMPTOTE
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 Centre C, of the Hyperbola,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Geometry