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-trixes
(gcide) | Separatrix \Sep`a*ra"trix\, n.; pl. L. -trices, E. -trixes.
[L., she that separates.] (Arith.)
The decimal point; the dot placed at the left of a decimal
fraction, to separate it from the whole number which it
follows. The term is sometimes also applied to other marks of
separation.
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-trixes
(gcide) | Impropriatrix \Im*pro`pri*a"trix\, n.; pl. E. -trixes, L.
-trices.
A female impropriator.
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-trixes
(gcide) | Quadratrix \Quad*ra"trix\, n.; pl. -trixes, or -trices.
[NL.] (Geom.)
A curve made use of in the quadrature of other curves; as the
quadratrix, of Dinostratus, or of Tschirnhausen.
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Directrixes
(gcide) | Directrix \Di*rect"rix\, n.; pl. E. Directrixes, L.
Directrices.
1. A directress. [R.] --Jer. Taylor.
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2. (Geom.)
(a) A line along which a point in another line moves, or
which in any way governs the motion of the point and
determines the position of the curve generated by it;
the line along which the generatrix moves in
generating a surface.
(b) A straight line so situated with respect to a conic
section that the distance of any point of the curve
from it has a constant ratio to the distance of the
same point from the focus.
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Generatrixes
(gcide) | Generatrix \Gen`er*a"trix\, n.; pl. L. Generatrices, E.
Generatrixes. [L.] (Geom.)
That which generates; the point, or the mathematical
magnitude, which, by its motion, generates another magnitude,
as a line, surface, or solid; -- called also describent.
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Osculatrixes
(gcide) | Osculatrix \Os`cu*la"trix\, n.; pl. Osculatrixes. [NL.]
(Geom.)
A curve whose contact with a given curve, at a given point,
is of a higher order (or involves the equality of a greater
number of successive differential coefficients of the
ordinates of the curves taken at that point) than that of any
other curve of the same kind.
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