Didonia

English

Etymology

In allusion to the classical story of Queen Dido, who was granted the land she could encompass with a piece of bull hide.

Noun

Didonia (plural Didonias)

1. (geometry) The curve which on a given surface and with a given perimeter contains the greatest area.
   • 1867, Peter Guthrie Tait, An Elementary Treatise on Quaternions:

     And hence, by Meusnier's theorem, the difference of the squares of the curvatures of curve and surface is constant; the curvature of the surface meaning here the reciprocal of the radius of the sphere which osculates in the reduction of the element of the Didonia.