Thesaurus: porism

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1. n. A proposition affirming the possibility of finding such conditions as will render a certain determinate problem indeterminate or capable of innumerable solutions.
2. n. A corollary.
3. 1. (Geom.) A proposition affirming the possibility of finding such conditions as will render a certain determinate problem indeterminate or capable of innumerable solutions. Playfair. 2. (Gr. Geom.) A corollary. Brande & C. Note: Three books of porisms of Euclid have been lost, but several attempts to determine the nature of these propositions and to restore them have been made by modern geometers.
4. A proposition affirming the possibility of finding suchconditions as will render a certain determinate problem indeterminateor capable of innumerable solutions. Playfair.
5. n. A proposition affirming the possibility of finding such conditions as will render a certain determinate problem indeterminate or capable of innumerable solutions. n. A corollary.