an expression which has or imitates, within a specified region of value, the properties of a corresponding integral expression.
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1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 72/1 (note) When w is holomorphe in a region except at a point z1, where it becomes infinite without 1/w ceasing to be holomorphe near this, this point is called a pole or an infinity of w.