indicatrix
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📖 中文释义
- n. 指标, 指示量, 指示线, 特征曲线
- [计] 指标图, 指示量, 指标线
🔗 释义中的汉语词
📘 English Definition（英文释义）
- n. A certain conic section supposed to be drawn in the
- tangent plane to any surface, and used to determine the accidents of
- curvature of the surface at the point of contact. The curve is similar
- to the intersection of the surface with a parallel to the tangent plane
- and indefinitely near it. It is an ellipse when the curvature is
- synclastic, and an hyperbola when the curvature is anticlastic.