Definition of catheti. Meaning of catheti. Synonyms of catheti

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Definition of catheti

catheti
Cathetus Cath"e*tus, n.; pl. catheti. [L., fr. Gr. ? a perpendicular line, fr. ? let down, fr. ?. See Catheter.] (Geom.) One line or radius falling perpendicularly on another; as, the catheti of a right-angled triangle, that is, the two sides that include the right angle. --Barlow.

Meaning of catheti from wikipedia

- triangle, a cathetus (originally from the Gr**** word Κάθετος; plural: catheti), commonly known as a leg, is either of the sides that are adjacent to...
- such triangle; the two other shorter sides of such a triangle are called catheti or legs. The length of the hypotenuse can be found using the Pythagorean...
- the Early Cretaceous. The only known species is the type Muiscasaurus catheti. The fossils of Muiscasaurus were found in the Paja Formation, whose sediments...
- the figure). The sides adjacent to the right angle are called legs (or catheti, singular: cathetus). Side a {\displaystyle a} may be identified as the...
- (green) as their hypotenuses. The catheti of the left triangle are − y 1 {\displaystyle -y_{1}} and f and the catheti of the right triangle are x 1 {\displaystyle...
- two sides are equidistant. The rafter is the hypotenuse and the legs or catheti of the triangle are the top wall plates of the structure. The side cut...
- not the case for the Balkan Peninsula. Both the eastern and western sea catheti from Odesa to Cape Matapan (c. 1230–1350 km) and from Trieste to Cape Matapan...
- formation the fossil ichthyosaurs Platypterygius sachicarum and Muiscasaurus catheti and the brachiosaur Padillasaurus leivaensis and pliosaur Brachauchenius...
- in Aegirosaurus leptospondylus, Sveltonectes insolitus and Muiscasaurus catheti) (Bardet & Fernández, 2000; Fischer et al., 2011a; Maxwell et al., 2015...
- Muiscasaurus catheti...