lemniscate
English
Etymology
First attested in 1781; borrowed from New Latin lēmniscāta (figūra), substantivized from lēmniscātus (“decorated with ribbons”), from lēmniscus (“a sort of ribbon”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /lɛmˈnɪs.kɪt/
- (US) IPA(key): /lɛmˈnɪs.kət/
Audio (US): (file) - Hyphenation: lem‧nis‧cate
Noun
lemniscate (plural lemniscates)
- A closed curve having the shape of a figure eight or an infinity symbol (∞).
- Synonyms: infinity, infinity symbol
- (mathematics) The lemniscate of Bernoulli
- (mathematics) Any of a variety of quartic functions producing similar figure-of-eight closed curves.
Hyponyms
(figure-of-eight quartic function:):
- hippopede
- lemniscate of Bernoulli
- lemniscate of Booth
- lemniscate of Gerono
- lemniscate of Huygens
Derived terms
- lemniscate case
- lemniscate constant
- lemniscate function
- lemniscate inverse curve
- lemniscate of Bernoulli
- lemniscate of Booth
- lemniscate of Gerono
- lemniscate of Huygens
- lemniscatic
Translations
symbol for infinity
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mathematics: figure-of-eight closed curve
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Anagrams
French
Noun
lemniscate f (plural lemniscates)
Further reading
- “lemniscate”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Latin
Adjective
lēmniscāte
- vocative masculine singular of lēmniscātus