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mediatrixes

mediatrixes is the plural of mediatrix.

Meaning of mediatrix

Noun

mediatrix (plural mediatrices or mediatrixes)

  1. A female mediator.
    • My lifes Cataſtrophe is at an end, / The Staffe whereon my ſickly Loue did leane / And which from falling (ſtill) did him defend, / Is through miſchance in ſunder broken cleane. / Gone is my Mediatrix, my beſt Aduocate, / Who vſde for me to interceſsionate.1598, Robert Tofte, “The Third Part of the Moneths Mind of a Melancholy Lover.”, in Alba. The Month's Minde of a Melancholy Lover. (Poetry), published 1880, →OCLC, page 106
  2. (rare) A bisector, the line that is perpendicular to a line segment and intersects the line segment at its midpoint.
    • […] the intersection of the normal at M to the parabola with the mediatrix of the line […]2000, Jean H. Gallier, Curves and surfaces in geometric modeling, page 105

Questions about mediatrixes

What is mediatrixes the plural of?
Mediatrixes is the plural of mediatrix.

Words near mediatrixes in the dictionary

  1. mediatress
  2. mediatresses
  3. mediatrice
  4. mediatrices
  5. mediatrix
  6. mediatrixes
  7. mediazation
  8. Mediaș
  9. medible
  10. medibles
  11. medic

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