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Definition: ELLIPTIC FUNCTIONS

Part of Speech Definition
Expression 1. A large and important class of functions, so called because one of the forms expresses the relation of the arc of an ellipse to the straight lines connected therewith.[Websters].

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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Weierstrass's elliptic functions 32     Jacobi's elliptic functions 25
Jacobi's elliptic functions 25     Weierstrass's elliptic functions 32

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