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generatrix
[ jen-uh-rey-triks ]
generatrix
/ ˈɛəˌɪٰɪ /
noun
- a point, line, or plane that is moved in a specific way to produce a geometric figure
generatrix
/ ĕ′ə-′ٰĭ /
, Plural generatrices ĕ′ə-ə-′ٰĭ-ŧ′,-ə-ə-ٰī′ŧ
- A geometric element that generates a geometric figure, especially a straight line that generates a surface by moving in a specified fashion.
- Also called generator
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of generatrix1
Example Sentences
The offspring of the aforesaid Venus Generatrix must have been especially ungrateful; and if it be true that Julius Cæsar was her son, he certainly exerted his best endeavours to depopulate his mother’s territories.
Poetical philosophy has considered Love as the source and arbiter of life, and the Venus Generatrix the fount of our existence.
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.
Generatrix of Life, she is instinct with vital impulses.
Shall she not be content with her beautiful part as generatrix of Faculty, but must seek to be exponent too?
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