generant

See also: générant

English

Etymology

Latin generans.

Adjective

generant (comparative more generant, superlative most generant)

  1. generative; producing
  2. (geometry) acting as a generant.

Noun

generant (plural generants)

  1. That which generates.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Glanvill to this entry?)
  2. (geometry) A generatrix.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for generant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Catalan

Verb

generant

  1. present participle of generar

Latin

Verb

generant

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of generō
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