symptotic
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]symptotic (comparative more symptotic, superlative most symptotic)
- (rare) Of lines: intersecting, crossing.
- 1970, Glenn Raymond Morrow, transl., A commentary on the first book of Euclid's Elements By Proclus, page 139:
- […] some are asymptotic, namely, those which however far extended never meet, and others that do intersect are symptotic.
- (rare) Symptomatic; relating to, based on, or constituting a symptom.