Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A geometric element that generates a geometric figure, especially a straight line that generates a surface by moving in a specified fashion.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In mathematics, that which generates; specifically, the point, line, or figure which by its motion is conceived to generate a line, surface, or solid.
- noun In physics, a dynamo-electric machine employed to generate an electric current. Compare
receptrix .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (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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- noun geometry A
curve that, whenrotated about anaxis , produces asolid figure
Etymologies
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Examples
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In each of these cases, it would be unreasonable to expect the protagonist to be the generator or generatrix, in this case of the action of the scene.
Author! Author! » Blog Archive » The plague of passivity IV: HELP! I’m tied to a train track! 2007
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In each of these cases, it would be unreasonable to expect the protagonist to be the generator or generatrix, in this case of the action of the scene.
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Terra ipsa Ægyptus expers imbrium mire tamen fertilis, et hominum aliorumque perfoecunda generatrix.
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Moreover, by the position of our intestines, through which the food is conveyed, and by the fact that they possess such a figure, our internal configuration [2981] in the form of a serpent reveals our hidden generatrix.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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Upon this latter a 2.6 m. wooden pulley directly drove, through a belt, the 0.2 m. pulley of the generatrix.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 Various
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As the action of the light continued, the first cloud gradually resolved itself into a series of parallel disks of exquisite delicacy, which rotated round an axis perpendicular to their surfaces, and finally blended to a screw surface with an inclined generatrix.
Fragments of science, V. 1-2 John Tyndall 1856
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Ægyptus expers imbrium mire tamen fertilis, et hominum aliorumque perfoecunda generatrix.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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