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oval of Cassini — Geom. the locus of a point such that the product of the distances from the point to two fixed points is constant. [after Italian geometer and astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625 1712)] … Useful english dictionary
Cassini — /keuh see nee, kah /, n. 1. Oleg /oh leg/, (Oleg Cassini Loiewski), born 1913, U.S. fashion designer and businessman, born in France. 2. a walled plain in the first quadrant of the face of the moon: about 36 miles (56 km) in diameter. 3. Geom.… … Universalium
Cassini — /keuh see nee, kah /, n. 1. Oleg /oh leg/, (Oleg Cassini Loiewski), born 1913, U.S. fashion designer and businessman, born in France. 2. a walled plain in the first quadrant of the face of the moon: about 36 miles (56 km) in diameter. 3. Geom.… … Useful english dictionary
Cassini–Huygens — Artist s concept of Cassini s Saturn Orbit Insertion Operator NASA / ESA / ASI Mission type … Wikipedia
Cassini — may be:People* Astronomers: ** Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625 1712), also known as Jean Dominique Cassini, Italian French astronomer ** Jacques Cassini (1677 1756), French astronomer, son of Giovanni Domenico ** César François Cassini de Thury… … Wikipedia
Oval — O val, n. A body or figure in the shape of an egg, or popularly, of an ellipse. [1913 Webster] {Cassinian oval} (Geom.), the locus of a point the product of whose distances from two fixed points is constant; so called from Cassini, who first… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Cassini oval — Some Cassini ovals. (b=0.6a, 0.8a, a, 1.2a, 1.4a, 1.6a) A Cassini oval is a plane curve defined as the set (or locus) of points in the plane such that the product of the distances to two fixed points … Wikipedia
Cassini-Kurve — Die Cassinische Kurve (benannt nach Giovanni Domenico Cassini) ist der Ort aller Punkte in der Ebene, für die das Produkt ihrer Abstände von zwei gegebenen Punkten (c,0) und ( − c,0) gleich a2 ist. Ein Spezialfall der Cassinischen Kurve ist die… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Oval (disambiguation) — An oval is any curve resembling an egg or an ellipse, such as a Cassini oval. The term does not have a precise mathematical definition except in one area oval (projective plane), but it may also refer to: A sporting arena of oval shape a cricket… … Wikipedia
Oval — For other uses, see Oval (disambiguation). An oval with two axes of symmetry constructed from four arcs (top), and comparison of blue oval and red ellipse with the same dimensions of short and long axes (bottom) … Wikipedia
