Steiner point

noun — 5 senses

Steiner point

noun

Etymology Named after Jakob Steiner.

1

Business, Electrical engineering, Electricity, Electromagnetism, Electronics, Energy, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics One vertex of a Steiner tree.

  • I created a Steiner point in my layout design at the point where I want my net's routing to branch.
2

Graph theory, Mathematics, Sciences An extra vertex that is not a member of the input.

3

Geometry, Mathematics, Sciences The point on the circumcircle of a triangle that lies at the intersection of three lines through the vertices of the triangle, where those lines are parallel to the corresponding sides of the first Brocard triangle.

4

Geometry, Mathematics, Sciences The geometric centroid of the system obtained by placing a mass equal to the magnitude of the exterior angle at each vertex of the system.

5

Geometry, Mathematics, Sciences Any of the 20 points located at the 3 by 3 intersections of the 60 Pascal lines which are produced by extending the triplets on opposite sides of a conic section in Pascal's theorem for all permutations of verices.

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