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名詞

parabolaster (plural parabolasters)

1. (mathematics, obsolete) A curve analogous to a parabola; or of a higher degree.
   • 1656, Hobbes, T., Six Lessons Epistle Ded. in Elements of Philosoph‎:

     I have exhibited and demonstrated the proportion of the Parabola and Parabolasters to the Parallelograms of the same height and base.

   • 1670, Collins, J., Letter in S. P. Rigaud & S. J. Rigaud, Correspondence of Scientific Men 17th Century (1841) (modernized text) vol. II. 199‎:

     A pure unaffected biquadratic parabolaster.

参照

“parabolaster”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.