circle inversion
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.24 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A transformation that maps any point P ≠ O to the point P’ on the ray from O through P for which OP × OP’ = r², and which maps O to the point at infinity.
Example Sentences
- "The first of these is obtained by the method of circle inversion first discovered by Peaucellier."
- "Nikolai Joukowski (1847-1921) was a Russian mathematician who did research in aerodynamics (James and James, 1992). He used circle inversion in the complex number plane to study airfoil shapes."
- "As is common with nonlinear projections, it is possible to come up with many variants of circle inversions.[…]An obvious (but perhaps not very useful) extension of circle inversion is sphere inversion, where the spaces inside and outside a sphere are swapped."
Inflected Forms
Phrases
sphere inversion
Frequently Paired Words
sphere inversion