"lemniscate" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /lɛmˈnɪs.kət/ [UK], /lɛmˈnɪs.kɪt/ [US] Forms: lemniscates [plural]
Etymology: From Latin lēmniscātus (“decorated with ribbons”). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|la|lēmniscātus||decorated with ribbons}} Latin lēmniscātus (“decorated with ribbons”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} lemniscate (plural lemniscates)
  1. The infinity symbol (∞). Translations (symbol for infinity): 雙紐線 (Chinese Mandarin), 双纽线 (shuāngniǔxiàn) (Chinese Mandarin), ääretön-merkki (Finnish), Lemniskate [feminine] (German), хязгааргүйн тэмдэг (xjazgaargüjn temdeg) (Mongolian)
    Sense id: en-lemniscate-en-noun-y1jt~3RI Categories (other): Infinity Disambiguation of Infinity: 75 20 5 Disambiguation of 'symbol for infinity': 75 20 5
  2. (mathematics) The lemniscate of Bernoulli Categories (topical): Curves, Mathematics Translations (mathematics: figure-of-eight closed curve): lemniscaat [feminine] (Dutch), lemniscate [feminine] (French), Lemniskate [feminine] (German), lemniscata [feminine] (Italian), лемниската (lemniskata) (Kazakh), 렘니스케이트 (remniseukeiteu) (Korean), lemniskata [feminine] (Polish), lemniscata [feminine] (Portuguese), лемниска́та (lemniskáta) [feminine] (Russian), лемниска́та (lemniskata) [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian)
    Sense id: en-lemniscate-en-noun-bdfwDMBs Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 26 58 16 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 29 63 8 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 25 59 16 Topics: mathematics, sciences Disambiguation of 'mathematics: figure-of-eight closed curve': 24 54 22
  3. (mathematics) Any of a variety of quartic functions producing similar figure-of-eight closed curves. Categories (topical): Mathematics
    Sense id: en-lemniscate-en-noun-a476zU~f Topics: mathematics, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: infinity [symbol], infinity symbol [symbol] Hyponyms: hippopede, lemniscate of Bernoulli, lemniscate of Booth, lemniscate of Gerono, lemniscate of Huygens Derived forms: lemniscate case, lemniscate constant, lemniscate function, lemniscate inverse curve, lemniscate of Bernoulli, lemniscate of Booth, lemniscate of Gerono, lemniscate of Huygens, lemniscatic

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