PORISMS

Noun

porisms

plural of porism

Source: Wiktionary


PORISM

Po"rism, n. Etym: [Gr. porisme.]

1. (Geom.)

Definition: A proposition affirming the possibility of finding such conditions as will render a certain determinate problem indeterminate or capable of innumerable solutions. Playfair.

2. (Gr. Geom.)

Definition: A corollary. Brande & C.

Note: Three books of porisms of Euclid have been lost, but several attempts to determine the nature of these propositions and to restore them have been made by modern geometers.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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SCHNORR

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