elliptic curve
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So called because it is the locus of an elliptic function.[1]
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elliptic curve (plural elliptic curves)
- (algebraic geometry) The algebraic set of an equation which equates the square of one variable to a reduced cubic polynomial in another variable, over some field, and such that the discriminant of the reduced cubic is non-zero.
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