generatrix

[jen-uh-rey-triks]

noun

Mathematics.

plural

generatrices 

1. generator.

generatrix

/ ˈdʒɛnəˌreɪtrɪks /

noun

1. a point, line, or plane that is moved in a specific way to produce a geometric figure

generatrix

plural

generatrices 

1. A geometric element that generates a geometric figure, especially a straight line that generates a surface by moving in a specified fashion.

2. Also called generator

Word History and Origins

Origin of generatrix¹

First recorded in 1830–40, generatrix is from the Latin word generātrīx producer. See generate, -trix

Example Sentences

The offspring of the aforesaid Venus Generatrix must have been especially ungrateful; and if it be true that Julius Cæsar was her son, he certainly exerted his best endeavours to depopulate his mother’s territories.

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Poetical philosophy has considered Love as the source and arbiter of life, and the Venus Generatrix the fount of our existence.

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A cylindrical surface, or briefly a cylinder, is the surface traced out by a line, named the generatrix, which moves parallel to itself and always passes through the circumference of a curve, named the directrix; the name cylinder is also given to the solid contained between such a surface and two parallel planes which intersect a generatrix.

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Generatrix of Life, she is instinct with vital impulses.

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Shall she not be content with her beautiful part as generatrix of Faculty, but must seek to be exponent too?

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