apotome (English, noun)
expansion: apotome (plural apotomes)
Senses:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The difference between two quantities or lengths commensurable only in power, as between 1 and the square root of 2, or between the diagonal and side of a square.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The remaining part of a whole tone after a minor second has been deducted from it; an augmented unison. Most commonly used to refer to the Pythagorean chromatic semitone, which has a ratio of 2187/2048.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A distinct division of an insect which is divided from the other divisions by a pinch point.
Forms:
form: apotomes
tags: plural