parabolism

English

Etymology

Noun

parabolism (plural parabolisms)

(obsolete, mathematics) The division of the terms of an equation by a known quantity that is involved in the first term.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “parabolism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)