Cyclopædia
Assuming ordinate is required, the following 9 results were found.
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ORDINATE Ratiohttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ORDINATE-Ratio
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ORDINATE in a Parabolahttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ORDINATE-in-a-Parabola
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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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
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Geometry
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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...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Geometry
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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...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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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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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...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Introduction
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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...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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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...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified