Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In geometry, the line or surface from the motion of which a surface or a solid is supposed to be generated or described.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Geom.) Same as generatrix.

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  • noun geometry A generatrix.

Etymologies

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Latin describens, present participle of dēscrībō.

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