contraprovectorn.
Mathematics.
A term applied by Cayley to the operator obtained by replacing the facients by symbols of partial differentiation in any contravariant.
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1858 Cayley (as above).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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n.1858- to take the time
- to take the trouble
- to take the veil
- to take the veil from a person's eyes
- to take the view of
- to take the voices
- to take the vows
- to take the wall
- to take the wall of a person
- to take the water
- to take the waters
- to take the way
- to take the weight off
- to take the weight off one's feet
- to take the whiff
- to take the white veil
- to take the will for the deed
- to take the wind out of the sails of
- to take the wire edge off
- to take the woe with the weal
- to take the word
- to take the words out of a person's mouth
- to take the worse and leave the better
- to take the worse and scorn the better
- to take the wrong pig by the ear