Lissajous curve

English

A Lissajous curve

Etymology

After French mathematician Jules Antoine Lissajous, who invented an apparatus that projected such figures onto a wall.

Noun

Lissajous curve (plural Lissajous curves)

  1. (mathematics) a Lissajous figure.

Synonyms

  • Lissajous knot
  • Lissajous orbit

See also

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