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oval of Cassini

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noun

Geometry.

  1. the locus of a point such that the product of the distances from the point to two fixed points is constant.

Etymology

Origin of oval of Cassini

After Italian geometer and astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625–1712)

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