integraph

integraph
/in"ti graf', -grahf'/, n.
integrator (def. 2).
[1880-85; b. INTEGRATE and -GRAPH]

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      mathematical instrument for plotting the integral of a graphically defined function. Two such instruments were invented independently about 1880 by the British physicist Sir Charles Vernon Boys (Boys, Sir Charles Vernon) and the Lithuanian mathematician Bruno Abdank Abakanowicz and were later modified and improved by others. The integraph draws the graph of the integral as the user traces the graph of the given function.

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