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Directrix   Listen
noun
Directrix  n.  (pl. E. directrixes, L. directrices)  
1.
A directress. (R.)
2.
(Geom.)
(a)
A line along which a point in another line moves, or which in any way governs the motion of the point and determines the position of the curve generated by it; the line along which the generatrix moves in generating a surface.
(b)
A straight line so situated with respect to a conic section that the distance of any point of the curve from it has a constant ratio to the distance of the same point from the focus.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Directrix" Quotes from Famous Books



... allowed to pass only after it had been so amended that it was supposed to require an impracticability. It declared that the central span of the contemplated bridge must be no less than 500 feet long, nor its elevation above the city directrix less than fifty feet. It was said at the time "that the genius did not exist in the country capable of erecting ...
— James B. Eads • Louis How



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