tractrices
Meaning of tractrices
plural noun
a curve whose tangents all intercept the x -axis at the same distance from the point of contact, being the involute of a catenary.
early 18th century: modern Latin, feminine of late Latin tractor ‘that which pulls’ (see tractor).
Information about tractrices
- It is a name.
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GalicianHyphenation of tractrices
trac-tri-ces
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- tractrices is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
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