1) An engraved inscription 2) Beginning quote 3) Chapter opener, at times 4) Citation 5) Engraved inscription 6) Introductory quotation 7) Mathematical analysis 8) Quotation 9) Quote
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1) Motto
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- a quotation at the beginning of some piece of writing
- an engraved inscription
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[literature] In literature, an epigraph is a phrase, quotation, or poem that is set at the beginning of a document or component. The epigraph may serve as a preface, as a summary, as a counter-example, or to link the work to a wider literary canon, either to invite comparison or to enlist a conventional context. ==Examples== ===Fictional qu...
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[mathematics] Similarly, the set of points on or below the function is its hypograph. ==Properties== A function is convex if and only if its epigraph is a convex set. The epigraph of a real affine function g : Rn→R is a halfspace in Rn+1. A function is lower semicontinuous if and only if its epigraph is closed. ...
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a quotation, taken from another literary work, that is placed at the start of a poem under the title. For example, T. S. Eliot's 'Gerontion' begins with a quotation from Shakespeare's play Measure for Measure.
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• (n.) Any inscription set upon a building; especially, one which has to do with the building itself, its founding or dedication. • (n.) A citation from some author, or a sentence framed for the purpose, placed at the beginning of a work or of its separate divisions; a motto.
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1. Any inscription set upon a building; especially, one which has to do with the building itself, its founding or dedication. ... 2. A citation from some author, or a sentence framed for the purpose, placed at the beginning of a work or of its separate divisions; a motto. ... Origin: Gr, fr., cf. F. Epigraphe. See Epigram. ... Source: Websters Dict...
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A quotation, taken from another literary work, that is placed at the start of a poem under the title
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Ep'i·graph noun [ Greek ..., from ...: confer French
épigraphe . See
Epigram .]
1. Any inscription set upon a building; especially, one which has to do with the building itself, its founding or dedication.
2. (Literature) A citation from some author, or a sentence...
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An epigraph is an inscription carved on a stone, statue or coin.
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n] - a quotation at the beginning of some piece of writing 2. [n] - an engraved inscription
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epigraph (EP i graf') 1. An inscription on a building, monument, gravestone, etc. 2. A motto or quotation at the beginning of a book, chapter, play, etc.
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epigraphy, epigraph, epigraphic 1. The science concerned with the interpretation, classification, etc. of inscriptions. Often in narrower sense: the paleography of inscriptions. 2. A motto or quotation at the beginning of a book, chapter, etc.
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noun an engraved inscription
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an inscription, esp. on a building, statue, or the like. · an apposite quotation at the beginning of a book, chapter, etc.
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a quotation at the beginning of some piece of writing
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