Definition of Autotomic

1. Adjective. Of or relating to autotomy.

Partainyms: Autotomy
Derivative terms: Autotomy

Definition of Autotomic

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Autotomic

autotelic
autotelism
autoteller
autotellers
autotemnous
autotest
autotests
autotetraploid
autotetraploids
autotetraploidy
autotheism
autotheistic
autotherapies
autotherapy
autothermic
autotomic (current term)
autotomies
autotomise
autotomize
autotomized
autotomizes
autotomizing
autotomous
autotomy
autotonsorialist
autotopagnosia
autotoxaemia
autotoxic
autotoxicities
autotoxicity

Literary usage of Autotomic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Elements of Natural Philosophy by William Thomson Kelvin, Peter Guthrie Tait (1902)
"But whether simple or autotomic, there is just one definite course to go round a circuit; •and at double or multiple points, this course must be distinctly ..."

2. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1900)
"Learn to denote a simple polygon—not autotomic—as or by the number of pairs of ... Every autotomic polygon is formed by simple polygons joined at opposite ..."

3. The Collected Mathematical Papers of Arthur Cayley by Arthur Cayley (1896)
"Supposing that the curve described by P is an oval (non-autotomic closed curve), and taking this to be in the first instance an indefinitely small oval, ..."

4. Reprint of Papers on Electrostatics and Magnetism by William Thomson Kelvin (1872)
"... there will be positions of P for which this cone will be "autotomic"; and in many cases, especially the most common practical case of an electro-magnet, ..."

5. Scientific Papers by Peter Guthrie Tait (1900)
"The study of the one-sided autotomic surface which is generated by increasing ... But the subject of the area of an autotomic plane curve is interesting. ..."

6. The Cambridge and Dublin Mathematical Journal by William Whewell, Duncan Farquharson Gregory, Robert Leslie Ellis, William Thomson Kelvin, Norman Macleod Ferrers (1850)
"In all cases, except those in which the galvanic circuit is contained in one plane, there will be positions of P for which this cone will be " autotomic"; ..."

7. Popular Science News (1902)
"But so soon as the leg was cut beyond the autotomic articulation the animal ... In other experiments the autotomic muscles were first injured and then the ..."

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