Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "In geometry, trope is an archaic term for a singular tangent space of a Variety, often a quartic surface. The term may have been introduced by Cayley (1869, p.202), who defined it as "the reciprocal term to node". It is not easy to give a precise definition, because the term is used mainly in older books and papers on algebraic geometry, whose definitions are vague, different, and use archaic terminology."@en }
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- Trope_(mathematics) comment "In geometry, trope is an archaic term for a singular tangent space of a Variety, often a quartic surface. The term may have been introduced by Cayley (1869, p.202), who defined it as "the reciprocal term to node". It is not easy to give a precise definition, because the term is used mainly in older books and papers on algebraic geometry, whose definitions are vague, different, and use archaic terminology.".