bipunctual

adj — 2 senses

bipunctual

adj

Etymology From bi- + punctual.

1

Having two points.

  • Finally, a study by Verhoeff indicates the possibility of the occurrence of visual apparent movement in the absence of serial bipunctual stimulation of the visual cortex.1948, The American Journal of Psychology - Volume 61, page 74:
  • We limit this paper to the bipunctual case : the signal is transmitted from a point A to a point B.2012, G. Jourdain, “Characterization of the Underwater Channel Application to Communication”, in C. H. Chen, editor, Issues in Acoustic Signal — Image Processing and Recognition:
2

Relative to two distinct reference points.

  • The two systems are, in fact, practically identical; whatever can be proved for or with the one can be proved for or with the other; and it is only their relations to the bipunctual and bilinear systems that the distinction between the tripunctual and the trilinear systems comes into play: tripunctual coordinates standing in the same relation to bipunctual coordinates as trilinear to bilinear .1878, F. Franklin, “Bipunctual Coordinates”, in American Journal of Mathematics, volume 1, page 156:
  • If X, Y, Z be a self-polar triad in regard to a conic, and O be any point, and XO, YO, and ZO meet YZ, ZX, XY, respectively, in A, B, C, then the conic is bipunctual in regard to A , B , C.1922, Henry Frederick Baker, Principles of geometry: Foundations - Volume 1, page 123:
1 more example
  • There are only two rectangular hyperbolas circumscribed to a given triangle and inpolar to a Bipunctual circle, namely those passing respectively through the points for which the circle is Bipunctual .1944, The Mathematics Student - Volumes 11-17, page 54:

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