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Catalan surface

Catalan surface noun: a ruled surface whose rulings are all parallel to a fixed plane.

Noun

Catalan surface (plural Catalan surfaces)

  1. A ruled surface whose rulings are all parallel to a fixed plane.

Forms of Catalan surface

pluralCatalan surfaces

Origin of Catalan surface

Named after the Belgian mathematician Eugène Charles Catalan.

Questions about Catalan surface

What does Catalan surface mean?
Catalan surface means a ruled surface whose rulings are all parallel to a fixed plane.
What part of speech is Catalan surface?
Catalan surface is a noun.
What is the plural of Catalan surface?
The plural of Catalan surface is Catalan surfaces.

Words near Catalan surface in the dictionary

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  2. Catalan Shepherds
  3. Catalan Sign Language
  4. Catalan solid
  5. Catalan solids
  6. Catalan surface
  7. Catalan surfaces
  8. Catalan's constant
  9. Catalan-Valencian-Balear
  10. Catalanic
  11. Catalanism

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