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porisms

porisms is the plural of porism.

Meaning of porism

Noun

porism (plural porisms)

  1. A proposition affirming the possibility of finding such conditions as will render a certain determinate problem indeterminate or capable of innumerable solutions.
  2. A corollary.
    • Porism: something between a problem and a theorem or that in which something is proposed to be investigated.
    • A Porism is a proposition in which it is proposed to demonstrate that some one thing, or more things than one, are given, to which, as also to each of innumerable other things, not given indeed, but which have the same relation to those which are given, it is to be shewn that there belongs some...1845, Robert Potts, Euclid's Elements

Questions about porisms

What is porisms the plural of?
Porisms is the plural of porism.

Words near porisms in the dictionary

  1. Porirua
  2. porism
  3. porismatic
  4. porismatical
  5. porismatically
  6. porisms
  7. poristic
  8. poristical
  9. porite
  10. porites
  11. poritid

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