Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word SEPARATRIX
SEPARATRIX
Definitions of SEPARATRIX
- A terminator: a line on a partially-illuminated surface separating the lit and shaded regions.
- (typography, historical) The ⟨L⟩ or pipe ⟨⟩ mark formerly used to divide integers from decimals.
- (typography, obsolete) Synonym of decimal point, which replaced such marks.
- (typography) The proofreader's mark resembling a slash or vertical bar placed after a note in the margin to indicate that it should replace the item(s) struckthrough in the running text or to separate it from other margin notes.
- (physics) The line between regions having different magnetic fields.
- (mathematics) The boundary separating two modes of behavior in a differential equation.
Number of letters
10
Is palindrome
No
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Examples of Using SEPARATRIX in a Sentence
- In the FitzHugh–Nagumo model, when the linear nullcline pierces the cubic nullcline at the left, middle, and right branch once each, the system has a separatrix.
- Rotation about the axis of minimum inertia (also called the minor principal axis) is also stable, but given enough time, any perturbations due to energy dissipation or torques would cause the polhode path to expand, in larger and larger ellipses or circles, and eventually migrate through the separatrix and its axis of intermediate inertia to its axis of maximum inertia.
- When a transverse magnetic field is applied to the axisymmetric equilibrium FRC magnetic field, rather than magnetic field lines closing on themselves and forming a closed region, they spiral around in the azimuthal direction and ultimately cross the separatrix surface which contains the closed FRC region.
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