Rabatment
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The rotation of a plane figure. countable, uncountable
"For example, we would tend to say that qa is rabatted (rotated) around the axis qd, but notice that conventional rabatment cannot explain the position of plane topl, since it should be rabatted around the line ix in the corporea, and instead it has been rotated around a vertical line passing through d."
Example
More examples"For example, we would tend to say that qa is rabatted (rotated) around the axis qd, but notice that conventional rabatment cannot explain the position of plane topl, since it should be rabatted around the line ix in the corporea, and instead it has been rotated around a vertical line passing through d."
Etymology
From rabat + -ment.
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