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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Lemniscata \Lem`nis*ca"ta\ (l[ecr]m`n[icr]s*k[amac]"t[adot]), Lemniscate \Lem*nis"cate\ (l[ecr]m*n[icr]s"k[asl]t), n. [L. lemniscatus adorned with ribbons, fr. lemniscus a ribbon hanging down, Gr. lhmni`skos.] (Geom.) A curve in the form of the figure 8, with both parts symmetrical, generated by the point in which a tangent to an equilateral hyperbola meets the perpendicular on it drawn from the center. | |
