undulary
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]undulary (comparative more undulary, superlative most undulary)
- (obsolete) Moving like waves; undulatory.
- 1672, Sir Thomas Browne, chapter 17, in [Pseudodixia Epidemica]:
- yet do the blasts and undulary breaths thereof maintain no certainty in their course
- (mathematics) Pertaining to the wave-like curve formed by the size of an ellipse as a function of the position of its focus.
- 2012, Jean Berthier, Kenneth A. Brakke, The Physics of Microdroplets, pages 1-95:
- The undulary curve (fig. 2.6c) is formed by the focus of an ellipse rolling on the axis.
Noun
[edit]undulary (plural undularies)
- An undulary curve.
- 2012, Jean Berthier, Kenneth A. Brakke, The Physics of Microdroplets, pages 1-95:
- An undulary can be expressed in parametric form using elliptic integrals.