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directrix

[ dih-rek-triks, dahy- ]

noun

plural directrixes, directrices
  1. Geometry. a fixed line used in the description of a curve or surface.
  2. Archaic. a directress.


directrix

/ daɪ-; dɪˈrɛktrɪks /

noun

  1. geometry a fixed reference line, situated on the convex side of a conic section, that is used when defining or calculating its eccentricity
  2. a directress
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

directrix

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  1. A straight line used in generating a curve such as a parabola.
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Gender Note

See -trix.
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of directrix1

From New Latin, dating back to 1615–25; direct, -trix
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of directrix1

C17: New Latin, feminine of director
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The populace went unimpeded about their business, little regarding the detonations, betraying no notice that invisible to sight, all about us on the streets and the green sward of the hillside were extended sweeping the dotted lines of ordnance calculation and the hovering directrix, focus, and vector of martial geometry.

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Supply dates and a budget and just let the Cruise Directrix take over, since it’s the obstacles that upset her, apparently, and not the planning itself.

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In addition to the archeus, which he described as “aura vitalis seminum, vitae directrix,†Van Helmont had other governing agencies resembling the archeus and not always clearly distinguished from it.

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The “axis†of a circular cylinder is the line joining the centres of two circular sections; it is the line through the centre of the directrix parallel to the generators.

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A cylindrical surface, or briefly a cylinder, is the surface traced out by a line, named the generatrix, which moves parallel to itself and always passes through the circumference of a curve, named the directrix; the name cylinder is also given to the solid contained between such a surface and two parallel planes which intersect a generatrix.

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