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Look up: bicorn

  1. bicorn
    [adj] - having two horns or horn-shaped parts 2. [n] - a cocked hat with the brim turned up to form two points
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. Bicorn
    Definition (keystage 4) The curve with equation y 2 ( a 2 - x 2 ) = ( x 2 + 2 a y - a ) 2 . <br />It is called a bicorn because it is shaped a little like a hat with two corners.
    Found on http://thesaurus.maths.org/mmkb/entry.ht

  3. bicorn
    bicorned adjective having two horns or horn-shaped parts; `a bicornuate uterus`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  4. bicorn
    bicorne noun a cocked hat with the brim turned up to form two points
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  5. Bicorn
    The `bicorn` is also known as a `cocked hat curve`, due to its resemblance to a bicorne. It is a curve with equation :y^2(a^2-x^2)=(x^2+2ay-a^2)^2 , with two cusps, symmetrical around the y-axis. The bicorn is a plane algebraic curve of degree four and genus zero. It has two cusp singularities in the real plane, and a double point in the complex projective plane at x=0, z=0 . If we move x=0 and z=0 to the origin substituting and perform an imag...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicorn

  6. Bicorn
    • (a.) Alt. of Bicornous
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  7. bicorn
    Bicorn with a = 1. Credit: Wikipedia Also known as the cocked-hat, any of a collection of quartic curves studied by James Sylvester in 1864 and by Arthur Cayley in 1867. The bicorn has the Cartesian equation y2(a2 - x2) = (x...
    Found on http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedi


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