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symptotic

symptotic adjective: of lines: intersecting, crossing.

Adjective

symptotic (comparative more symptotic, superlative most symptotic)

  1. (rare) Of lines: intersecting, crossing.
    • […] some are asymptotic, namely, those which however far extended never meet, and others that do intersect are symptotic.1970, Glenn Raymond Morrow, transl., A commentary on the first book of Euclid's Elements By Proclus, page 139
  2. (rare) Symptomatic; relating to, based on, or constituting a symptom.

Forms of symptotic

comparativemore symptotic
superlativemost symptotic

Questions about symptotic

What does symptotic mean?
Symptotic means of lines: intersecting, crossing.
What part of speech is symptotic?
Symptotic is an adjective.

Words near symptotic in the dictionary

  1. symptoms
  2. sympton
  3. symptosis
  4. symptothermal
  5. symptothermic
  6. symptotic
  7. Syms
  8. Symses
  9. Symæan
  10. Symæans
  11. syn

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