mean proportional
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of mean proportional
First recorded in 1565–75
Example Sentences
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Then the whole line DC is 141,289; and CP, which is a mean proportional between DC and CN, since MD touches the Ellipse, will be 105,032.
From Treatise on Light by Huygens, Christiaan
Define ratio, proportion, mean proportional, third proportional, fourth proportional.
From A Review of Algebra by Rivenburg, Romeyn Henry
The explanation of this is that CD is a mean proportional between AC and CB.
From The Seven Follies of Science [2nd ed.] A popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve them. by Phin, John
Each of the other sides is the mean proportional between the hypotenuse and the segment of the hypotenuse adjacent to that side.
From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene
When 5 and 20 are given, x is a mean proportional when in 5, x, 20, 5 is to x as x to 20.
From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II by Smith, David Eugene
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