Meaning of subcontrary | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Contrary in an inferior degree.
   not-comparable
2. Having, or being in, a contrary order; said of a section of an oblique cone having a circular base made by a plane not parallel to the base, but so inclined to the axis that the section is a circle; applied also to two similar triangles when so placed as to have a common angle at the vertex, the opposite sides not being parallel.
   not-comparable
3. Denoting the relation of opposition between the particular affirmative and particular negative. Of these both may be true and only one can be false.
   not-comparable

Examples

“Two planes drawn through the vertex of the cone parallel to the plane of the circular base , and that of a subcontrary section, are called by Chasles the cyclic planes of the cone”

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