Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An instrument for measuring the area under a curve combined with a recording device which draws the integral curve of the curve traced by the point of the instrument; an integrator.
- noun An instrument for determining the value of an indefinite integral.
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- noun mathematics A device that determines the
value of anintegral by measuring thearea under acurve (and drawing the curve of its integral)
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If we write au = [Integral] Xdx, av = [Integral] Ydy, then u as a function of x, and v as a function of y can be graphically found by the integraph.
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The apparatus called an integraph, constructed by Messrs. Napoli and
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[Sidenote: Integraphs.] mere constant, an integraph gives the value of an indefinite integral, which is a function of x.
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Sometimes a combination of graphical work with an integraph will serve the purpose.
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The object of the integraph is to draw this new curve when the tracer of the instrument is guided along the y-curve.
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Abdank-Abakanowicz's work, actually made an integraph which was exhibited at the Physical Society in 1881.
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The instrument now is an _integraph_ giving the value of a definite integral as function of a _variable parameter_.
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Boys 'integraph was invented during a sleepless night, and during the following days carried out as a working model, which gives highly satisfactory results.
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In Coradi's integraph a rectangular frame F_1F_2F_3F_4 (fig. 22) rests with four rollers R on the drawing board, and can roll freely in the direction
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Hence we introduce an arbitrary constant length a, the unit to which the integraph draws the curve, and write dY/dx = y/a and aY = [Integral] ydx.
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