Definition of Quadrics. Meaning of Quadrics. Synonyms of Quadrics

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Definition of Quadrics

Quadric
Quadric Quad"ric, n. (a) (Alg.) A quantic of the second degree. See Quantic. (b) (Geom.) A surface whose equation in three variables is of the second degree. Spheres, spheroids, ellipsoids, paraboloids, hyperboloids, also cones and cylinders with circular bases, are quadrics.
Quadric
Quadric Quad"ric, a. (Math.) Of or pertaining to the second degree.

Meaning of Quadrics from wikipedia

- reducible, an affine algebraic set. Quadrics may also be defined in projective spaces; see § Normal form of projective quadrics, below. In coordinates x1, x2...
- supercomputers in the world were based on Quadrics' interconnect. They officially closed on June 29, 2009. The Quadrics name was first used in 1993 for a commercialized...
- group, and so the study of quadrics can be considered as a descendant of Euclidean geometry. Many properties of quadrics hold more generally for projective...
- of quadrics is contour lines of quadrics. In any case (parallel or central projection), the contour lines of quadrics are conic sections. See below and...
- manifold known as the Lie quadric (a quadric hypersurface in projective space). Lie sphere geometry is the geometry of the Lie quadric and the Lie transformations...
- physicist J. C. Maxwell (1868). Main investigations and the extension to quadrics was done by the German mathematician O. Staude in 1882, 1886 and 1898....
- }}x_{d}{\text{-axis}}\}} These two examples are quadrics and are projectively equivalent. Simple examples, which are not quadrics can be obtained by the following constructions:...
- divided into minimal surfaces, ruled surfaces, non-orientable surfaces, quadrics, pseudospherical surfaces, algebraic surfaces, and other types of surfaces...
- 5-space, the points that represent each line in S lie on a quadric, Q known as the Klein quadric. If the underlying vector space of S is the 4-dimensional...
- leading to the definition of the focal curves of confocal quadrics. See § Confocal quadrics below. Considering the pencils of confocal ellipses and hyperbolas...