Meanings
plural Steiner points
- businessOne vertex of a Steiner tree.
I created a Steiner point in my layout design at the point where I want my net's routing to branch.
- graph theoryAn extra vertex that is not a member of the input.
- geometryThe point on the circumcircle of a triangle that lies at the intersection of three lines through the vertices of the triangle, where those lines are parallel to the corresponding sides of the first Brocard triangle.
- geometryAny of the 20 points located at the 3 by 3 intersections of the 60 Pascal lines which are produced by extending the triplets on opposite sides of a conic section in Pascal's theorem for all permutations of verices.
Origin
Named after Jakob Steiner.
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