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elliptic integral

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noun

Mathematics.

  1. a certain kind of definite integral that is not expressible by means of elementary functions.

Etymology

Origin of elliptic integral

First recorded in 1880–85

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If then we have any elliptic integral having algebraic infinities we can, by subtraction from it of an appropriate sum of constant multiples of J1, J2, J3 and their differential coefficients just written down, obtain, as the result, an integral without algebraic infinities.

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