Tschirnhausen's cubic

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Tschirnhausen's cubic [′chərn‚hau̇z·ənz ′kyü·bik]

(mathematics)

A plane curve consisting of the envelope of the line through a variable pointPon a parabola which is perpendicular to the line from the focus of the parabola toP. Also known as l'Hôpital's cubic; trisectrix of Catalan.

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