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porism

noun

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πόρισμα (pórisma, “a deduction from a previous demonstration”).

  1. derived from πόρισμα

Definitions

  1. A proposition affirming the possibility of finding such conditions as will render a…

    A proposition affirming the possibility of finding such conditions as will render a certain determinate problem indeterminate or capable of innumerable solutions.

  2. A corollary.

    • In the original Greek of Euclid's Elements the corollaries to the propositions are called porisms.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for porism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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