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BIMEDIAL

Volume 3 · 41 words · 1797 Edition

BIMEDIAL, in mathematics. If two medial lines, as \(AB\) and \(BC\), commensurable only in power, containing a rational rectangle, are compounded, the whole line \(AC\) will be irrational, and is called a first bimedial line.

See Euclid, lib x. prop. 38.