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Definition of Porism

Porism
Porism Po"rism, n. [Gr. ? a thing procured, a deduction from a demonstration, fr. ? to bring, provide: cf. F. porisme.] 1. (Geom.) A proposition affirming the possibility of finding such conditions as will render a certain determinate problem indeterminate or capable of innumerable solutions. --Playfair. 2. (Gr. Geom.) A corollary. --Brande & C. Note: Three books of porisms of Euclid have been lost, but several attempts to determine the nature of these propositions and to restore them have been made by modern geometers.

Meaning of Porism from wikipedia

- Steiner's porism. The term originates from three books of Euclid that have been lost. A proposition may not have been proven, so a porism may not be...
- Look up por or POR in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Por or POR may refer to: Por (Thai word) Por, Armenia, a town Por, a Spanish preposition Por, a Portuguese...
- Ellipses Hartshorne ellipse Steiner's porism Tangent lines to circles Egan conjecture Weisstein, Eric W. "Poncelet's Porism." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web...
- Plus-One-Recall-Store (PORS) is a language used in evolutionary com****tion and genetic programming. The PORS language consists of two terminal nodes (1...
- Weisstein, Eric W. "Poncelet's Porism." From MathWorld—A Wolfram Web Resource. http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PonceletsPorism.html King, Jonathan L. (1994)...
- Dange (transl. Rioting) / Por (transl. War) is a 2024 Indian action drama film directed by Bejoy Nambiar. The film was shot simultaneously in Hindi and...
- Por Thozhil (transl. The Art of War) is a 2023 Indian Tamil-language thriller film directed by Vignesh Raja in his directorial debut and written by Alfred...
- discovered many of their properties. A fundamental result is Steiner's porism, which states: If at least one closed Steiner chain of n circles exists...
- Pors may refer to PORS, the Plus-One-Recall-Store language used in evolutionary com****tion and genetic programming Pors Fotball, also known as Pors Grenland...
- Por Esto! (English: "That's Why!") is a daily Mexican newspaper headquartered in Mérida, Yucatán. It has offices in Cancún, Quintana Roo, and several...