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Definition of Conjugate point

Conjugate point
Conjugate Con"ju*gate, a. [L. conjugatus, p. p. or conjugare to unite; con- + jugare to join, yoke, marry, jugum yoke; akin to jungere to join. See Join.] 1. United in pairs; yoked together; coupled. 2. (Bot.) In single pairs; coupled. 3. (Chem.) Containing two or more radicals supposed to act the part of a single one. [R.] 4. (Gram.) Agreeing in derivation and radical signification; -- said of words. 5. (Math.) Presenting themselves simultaneously and having reciprocal properties; -- frequently used in pure and applied mathematics with reference to two quantities, points, lines, axes, curves, etc. Conjugate axis of a hyperbola (Math.), the line through the center of the curve, perpendicular to the line through the two foci. Conjugate diameters (Conic Sections), two diameters of an ellipse or hyperbola such that each bisects all chords drawn parallel to the other. Conjugate focus (Opt.) See under Focus. Conjugate mirrors (Optics), two mirrors so placed that rays from the focus of one are received at the focus of the other, especially two concave mirrors so placed that rays proceeding from the principal focus of one and reflected in a parallel beam are received upon the other and brought to the principal focus. Conjugate point (Geom.), an acnode. See Acnode, and Double point. Self-conjugate triangle (Conic Sections), a triangle each of whose vertices is the pole of the opposite side with reference to a conic.

Meaning of Conjugate point from wikipedia

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- In differential geometry, conjugate points or focal points are, roughly, points that can almost be joined by a 1-parameter family of geodesics. For example...
- In projective geometry, the harmonic conjugate point of a point on the real projective line with respect to two other points is defined by the following...
- specific point in object space must be conjugate to an image ray intersecting the conjugate point in image space. A consequence is that every point on an...
- R 2 {\displaystyle \Omega \subset \mathbb {R} ^{2}} is said to have a conjugate (function) v ( x , y ) {\displaystyle v(x,y)} if and only if they are...
- to be conjugate if each chord parallel to one diameter is bisected by the other diameter. For example, two diameters of a circle are conjugate if and...
- Look up conjugation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Conjugation or conjugate may refer to: Grammatical conjugation, the modification of a verb from...
- In geometry, the isogonal conjugate of a point P with respect to a triangle △ABC is constructed by reflecting the lines PA, PB, PC about the angle bisectors...
- In mathematics, the conjugate gradient method is an algorithm for the numerical solution of particular systems of linear equations, namely those whose...
- at another point, called a conjugate point. From the focusing theorem, we know that all geodesics from p {\displaystyle p} have conjugate points at finite...