noun
Usage: usually capitalized S
Etymology: after Robert Simson died 1768 Scottish mathematician
: the line joining the feet of the perpendiculars let fall from any point on the circumcircle of a triangle upon the sides of the triangle
noun
Usage: usually capitalized S
Etymology: after Robert Simson died 1768 Scottish mathematician
: the line joining the feet of the perpendiculars let fall from any point on the circumcircle of a triangle upon the sides of the triangle
Webster's New International English Dictionary. Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster. 2012