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Example sentences for "quadrature"

Lexicographically close words:
quadrate; quadratic; quadratics; quadratojugal; quadratura; quadratures; quadrennial; quadric; quadriceps; quadriform
  1. The Greeks were in possession of several relations pertaining to the quadrature of the lune.

  2. It is of recent years that the most important advances in the theory of circle-quadrature have been made.

  3. For minute and lengthy details regarding the quadrature of the circle in the Low Countries, see de Haan, "Bouwstoffen voor de geschiedenis, &c.

  4. Montucla, successful attempt to show that quadrature of the circle by a Euclidean construction was impossible.

  5. Quadrature of the Circle," in English Cyclop.

  6. To prove the same proposition regarding [pi] is to prove that a Euclidean construction for circle-quadrature is impossible.

  7. In 1655 appeared the Arithmetica Infinitorum of John Wallis, where numerous problems of quadrature are dealt with, the curves being now represented in Cartesian co-ordinates, and algebra playing an important part.

  8. Rectification and quadrature of the circle have thus been, since the time of Archimedes at least, practically identical problems.

  9. Hippocrates, doubtless raised hopes of a solution by his quadrature of the so-called meniscoi or lune.

  10. This is equivalent to making the machine into a four phase alternator with half the voltage in each of the four phases, which will then be in successive quadrature with each other.

  11. The main coils are wound on every other tooth, and the teazer coils are placed in quadrature with them, as shown.

  12. Its use is to generate a pressure in quadrature with that of the main coil.

  13. He carried the quadrature of the circle to 120 decimal places.

  14. He is the author of a method of determining the quadrature of the circle.

  15. Among the special problems he treated of may be mentioned the quadrature of the circle, his determination of the ratio of the circumference to the diameter being between: 3.

  16. Among his mathematical investigations must not be omitted the quadrature of the parabola.

  17. The quadrature of the circle discovered, by Arthur Parsey,[639] author of the 'art of miniature painting.

  18. He finds in it an account which Bovillus gives of the quadrature of the peasant laborer, and describes it as agreeing with his own.

  19. For instance, the large proportion of works {8} on the quadrature of the circle is not my doing: it is the natural share of this subject in the actual run of events.

  20. When our Board of Longitude was in existence, most of its time was consumed in listening to schemes, many of which included the quadrature of the circle.

  21. I ought to add that the quadrature of Orontius, and solutions of all the other difficulties, were first published in De Rebus Mathematicis Hactenus Desideratis,[52] of which I have not the date.

  22. I now come to the way in which such considerations have led to a mode in which mere pitch-and-toss has given a more accurate approach to the quadrature of the circle than has been reached by some of my paradoxers.

  23. Aristotle, treating of the category of relation, denies that the quadrature has been found, but appears to assume that it can be done.

  24. The quadrature deserved it; but that is another point.

  25. It clearly appears from my present analysis and demonstration that they have already recognized and perfectly agreed to the fact that the quadrature of the circle is mathematically demonstrated.

  26. There are many remarkable cases of verification; and one of them relates to the quadrature of the circle.

  27. To conclude, it is false that any reward has been promised by the European Powers to the person who shall discover the perpetual motion; and the case is the same in regard to the quadrature of the circle.

  28. Hence the fascination exercised upon them by those apparently simple problems which already in ancient times were recognized as "old stickers," the quadrature of the circle, the trisection of angles, and the duplicature of the cube.

  29. Even the moon, whose assistance is needed, is in the house of a friendly star, and in a favorable quadrature to Jupiter.

  30. If the blood-red Mars, or the pale Saturn stand in quadrature or in opposition to one another, or to any of the other wandering stars, this portends destruction.

  31. Bryson, his quadrature of the circle, 381.

  32. Hippokrates, his quadrature of the circle, 381.

  33. Quadrature of the circle produced by movements of four equal angles, 771-l.

  34. Circular movement of four equal angles around one point; the quadrature of the circle, 771-l.

  35. The Square, turning upon itself, produces the circle equal to itself, and the circular movement of four equal angles turning around one point, is the quadrature of the circle.

  36. Qu What do you mean by the quadrature of the circle?

  37. Q Quadrature of the circle indicates the knowledge of the four vulgar elements, 629-m.

  38. The Grand Arcanum makes him master of gold and the light, which are at bottom the same thing, he has solved the problem of the quadrature of the circle, he directs the perpetual movement, and he possesses the philosophical stone.

  39. In geometry Archimedes stands, as it were, on the shoulders of Eudoxus in that he applied the method of exhaustion to new and more difficult cases of quadrature and cubature.

  40. Even in this position there would be no torque if there were no lag of the currents in the ring, for the phase of the induced pressure is in quadrature with the phase state of the field.

  41. The true magnetizing current is only that component of this total no load current which is in quadrature with the supply pressure.

  42. The pressure circuit also comprises a lag coil wound over the upper limb of the core of the pressure circuit and provided with an adjustable resistance for obtaining a held component in quadrature with the shunt field.

  43. The armature coils are not exactly 90 degrees apart, since it is not possible to get the current in the two coils exactly in quadrature without introducing condensers on other complicated construction.

  44. In construction, there is a ~main~ single phase winding an auxiliary or ~teaser~ winding connected to the central point of the main winding in quadrature therewith.

  45. Two of these slots are occupied by a single primary coil, and the two circular slots in quadrature thereto contain the compensating or short circuit winding.

  46. Yet exact quadrature is necessary to make the strength of the resultant field, and consequently the rotor speed, proportional to the power factor, as explained in the discussion of the field producing element.

  47. By shifting the position of the resistance of the short circuited loop, the lag may be so adjusted that the shunt field flux is in exact quadrature with the voltage.

  48. The general run of circle-squarers, hearing that the quadrature is not pronounced to be demonstratively impossible, imagine that the arithmetical quadrature is open to their ingenuity.

  49. The quadrature and exact area of the circle demonstrated.

  50. But such things as the quadrature of the circle, etc.

  51. I do not think I have mentioned the bright form of quadrature in which a square is made equal to a circle by making each side equal to a quarter of the circumference.

  52. I give the whole of it: "Quadrature of the Circle.

  53. Mr. James Smith obtained his quadrature at full moon; the Archpriest of St. Vitus and some others at new moon.

  54. Among the matters which have come to me since the Budget opened, there is a pamphlet of quadrature of two pages and a half from Professor Recalcati,[585] already mentioned.

  55. As to subject-matter, there are points which stand strongly out; the quadrature of the circle, for instance.

  56. The Quadrature of the Circle: Correspondence between an Eminent Mathematician and James Smith, Esq.

  57. After quadrature it appears nearer and nearer the western horizon each evening at sunset, until it finally is too near the sun to be visible.

  58. When it is at quadrature and moving toward opposition, it will rise some time between midnight and sunset, and will be in view in the east during a part of the first half of the night.

  59. When it is at quadrature and moving toward conjunction, it passes the meridian about six o’clock in the evening, and may be seen in the western half of the sky during the early evening, and will set before midnight.

  60. When in opposition to the Sun, that is to say when on the meridian at midnight, it has a truly circular disc; but between opposition and its two positions of quadrature it is gibbous.

  61. Because some years previously in 1886 when occupied with the problem of the quadrature of the circle he had learned of the existence of a number computed to a relative degree of accuracy to be of such magnitude and of so many places, e.

  62. De Morgan tells of a Jesuit who came all the way from South America, bringing with him a quadrature of the circle and a newspaper cutting announcing that a reward was ready for the discovery in England.

  63. The Quadrature of the Circle or, as it is called in the vernacular, "Squaring the Circle.

  64. Saturn's aspect to Jupiter, the ruler of the 7th House, and the Moon's quadrature to Venus must be held accountable for the successive bereavements which have disturbed the conjugal life in this case.

  65. And, in the same way, a person who is stuffing down the Alphabet of Astrology cannot be expected to intuit anything concerning the potential of the Sun's direction to the quadrature of Saturn.

  66. The quadrature of Mars to Uranus will induce momentary outbursts of temper and some irritability of nature, but the character I am delineating is not such as can easily be played upon, for it is remarkably lacking in emotional susceptibility.

  67. All next week it is moving against the same extra pull, and so arrives at quadrature (half moon) somewhat late.

  68. Now, by following out the principles of the theory, we shall see that this cannot be the case, except when the moon is in quadrature with the sun.


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