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rabatment

rabatment noun: the rotation of a plane figure.

Noun

rabatment (countable and uncountable, plural rabatments)

  1. The rotation of a plane figure.
    • For example, we would tend to say that qa is rabatted (rotated) around the axis qd, but notice that conventional rabatment cannot explain the position of plane topl, since it should be rabatted around the line ix in the corporea, and instead it has been rotated around a vertical line passing...1996, James Elkins, The Poetics of Perspective, →ISBN, page 112
    • To be able to perform his constructions on a piece of paper Guidobaldo almost always applied a particular rabatment.2008, Kirsti Andersen, The Geometry of an Art, →ISBN

Forms of rabatment

pluralrabatments

Origin of rabatment

From rabat + -ment.

Questions about rabatment

What does rabatment mean?
Rabatment means the rotation of a plane figure.
What part of speech is rabatment?
Rabatment is a noun.
What is the plural of rabatment?
The plural of rabatment is rabatments.

Words near rabatment in the dictionary

  1. rabated
  2. rabates
  3. rabatine
  4. rabatines
  5. rabating
  6. rabatment
  7. rabatments
  8. rabato
  9. rabatoes
  10. rabatos
  11. rabats

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