LEMNISCATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lemniscate mean? 

• LEMNISCATE (noun)
  The noun LEMNISCATE has 1 sense:

1. any of several plane algebraic curves in the shape of a figure eight

  Familiarity information: LEMNISCATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEMNISCATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several plane algebraic curves in the shape of a figure eight

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Hypernyms ("lemniscate" is a kind of...):

curve; curved shape (the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes)

Domain category:

geometry (the pure mathematics of points and lines and curves and surfaces)