See Also: rabid(medicine)
rabid(dictionary)
rabid(dictionary)

Taylor (iou) and rabid (iou)


Taylor (iou)



Taylor noun. E19.
[Brook Taylor (1685-1731), English mathematician.]
Math.
Taylor's theorem, the theorem that the values of a function f(x) can be approximated over any interval throughout which its first n Derivatives exist by the first n terms of Taylor's series (with h=xa) plus a remainder dependent on the nth derivative of f(x). E19.
Taylor series, Taylor's series, an infinite series of the form f(a)+hf'(a)+h2f(a)/2!+...+hn1f(n1)(a)/(n1)!+..., where f(i)(a) is the value of the ith derivative of a function f(x) at x=a; an analogous series for a function of more than one variable. M19.

rabid (iou)



rabid adjective. E17.
[Latin rabidus, from rabere be mad: see -ID1.]
Furious, raging; madly violent in Nature or behaviour. E17.
R. Graves Honest men sleeping Start awake with rabid eyes, Bone-chilled, flesh creeping. Health Express I..cannot stop feeling this rabid hunger.
Of a person: that is something to an unreasoning extent; fanatical. E19.
C. Lamb: B. was a rabid pedant. R. Campbell Those strapping girls whose love..Would make a rabid Mormon of a priest.
Affected with rabies; pertaining to or of the Nature of rabies. E19.
ra'bidity noun M19.
rabidly adverb L19.
rabidness noun M17.