Chord
From Encyclopedia of Mathematics
A rectilinear segment joining two arbitrary points of a conic section.
Comments
This word is also used for the rectilinear segment joining two arbitrary points of a closed curve, surface or submanifold of Euclidean space.
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Chord. Encyclopedia of Mathematics. URL: http://encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=Chord&oldid=38671
Chord. Encyclopedia of Mathematics. URL: http://encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=Chord&oldid=38671
This article was adapted from an original article by BSE-3 (originator), which appeared in Encyclopedia of Mathematics - ISBN 1402006098. See original article