Apotome

Quick meaning: Apotome is a noun meaning (zoology) A distinct division of an insect which is divided from the other divisions by a pinch point.

Meaning

(zoology) A distinct division of an insect which is divided from the other divisions by a pinch point.

More Meanings

1. (mathematics, geometry) The difference between two quantities or lengths commensurable only in power, as between 1 and the square root of 2, or between the diagonal and side of a square.
2. (music) The remaining part of a whole tone after a minor second has been deducted from it; an augmented unison. Most commonly used to refer to the Pythagorean chromatic semitone, which has a ratio of 2187/2048.

Example Sentences

The bands pass inside the margins of the apotome as they approach its constriction and form two pigmented areas broadly based on the frontal sutures and becoming dispersed towards the mid-line.

In generalized Diplura, Archaeognatha and some Thysanura, five parts or apotomes are distinguished, which from the anterior to the posterior part are: the presternum, the basisternum, the furcasternum, the spinasternum and the poststernum.

Yet it is not until Book X that the properties of such a line (with greater length is an apotome and lesser length a first apotome) are explained and not until Book XIII that this type of line is applied, which will be discussed in more detail later.[…]The likewise is true of apotomes (X. 97).

2014, Jacques Sesiano (translator), Liber Mahameleth, Part Two: Translation, Glossary, [12th c, Anonymous (possibly John of Seville), Liber Mahameleth], Springer, page 767, If some number and the root of the root of a number are multiplied by the corresponding apotome, the result will be an apotome.

Word Forms

• apotomes

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include apomorphism, arithmology, polyache, atom, product, apeirogon.

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