Meaning of 'porism'

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Meaning of ‘porism’

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porism

(Geom.) A proposition affirming the possibility of finding such conditions as will render a certain determinate problem indeterminate or capable of innumerable solutions. Playfair.

(Gr. Geom.) A corollary. Brande & C. Note: Three books of porisms of Euclid have been lost, but several attempts to determine the nature of these propositions and to restore them have been made by modern geometers.

Source: WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University

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