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1. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 | ||
Porism \Po"rism\, n. [Gr. ? a thing procured, a deduction from a demonstration, fr. ? to bring, provide: cf. F. porisme.] 1. (Geom.) A proposition affirming the possibility of finding such conditions as will render a certain determinate problem indeterminate or capable of innumerable solutions. --Playfair. [1913 Webster] 2. (Gr. Geom.) A corollary. --Brande & C. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Porismatic | ||
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