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Definition of Generant
1. a. Generative; producing
2. n. That which generates.
Definition of Generant
1. Noun. That which generates. ¹
2. Noun. (geometry) A generatrix. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Generant
1. a line which traces out a figure [n -S]
Medical Definition of Generant
1.
Generative; producing; especially.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Generant
Literary usage of Generant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Miscellanea Curiosa: Containing a Collection of Some of the Principal by James Hodgson, William Derham, Richard Mead, Royal Society (Great Britain), Fontenelle (Bernard Le Bovier) (1708)
"The Segments of the generant Circle are to the ... of part of the generant when
the point F of the exterior Cycloid was ..."
2. Miscellanea Curiosa: Being a Collection of Some of the Principal Phaenomena by Royal Society (Great Britain), Edmond Halley (1706)
"The Segments of the generant Circle are to the ... of part of the generant when
the point F of the exterior Cycloid was ..."
3. The Journal of the Royal Institution of Great Britain by Royal Institution of Great Britain (1831)
"The whole of the organ of extension abstractedly considered, without reference
to the nutrient and the generant, is the stirps or stock, L e., ..."
4. Practical Essays on Mill Work and Other Machinery by Robertson Buchanan, Thomas Tredgold, Robert Willis, James Nasmyth (1841)
"When the whole arc is required, the versed sine becomes the diameter of the generant.
The length of any arc of an interior epicycloid is found in a similar ..."
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