Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

rabatment

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ra-bat-ment
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The rotation of a plane figure.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"For example, we would tend to say that qa is rabatted (rotated) around the axis qd, but notice that conventional rabatment cannot explain the position of plane topl, since it should be rabatted around the line ix in the corporea, and instead it has been rotated around a vertical line passing through d."
"To be able to perform his constructions on a piece of paper Guidobaldo almost always applied a particular rabatment."
"Her reconstruction was of the same type, except that the central blue arrow was now above the other two in I and beneath them in II (perfect rabatment, but no rotation)."

Etymology

From rabat + -ment.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: rabat

Usage

Inflected Forms

rabatments (plural)

Questions

What does rabatment mean?: The rotation of a plane figure.
Where does rabatment come from?: From rabat + -ment.

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