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  2. Y-intercept - Wikipedia

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    Graph = with the -axis as the horizontal axis and the -axis as the vertical axis.The -intercept of () is indicated by the red dot at (=, =).. In analytic geometry, using the common convention that the horizontal axis represents a variable and the vertical axis represents a variable , a -intercept or vertical intercept is a point where the graph of a function or relation intersects the -axis of ...

  3. Mathematical fiction - Wikipedia

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    Mathematical fiction is a genre of creative fictional work in which mathematics and mathematicians play important roles. The form and the medium of the works are not important. The form and the medium of the works are not important.

  4. Intercept - Wikipedia

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    Intercept may refer to: X-intercept, the point where a line crosses the x-axis; Y-intercept, the point where a line crosses the y-axis; Interception, a play in various forms of football; The Mona Intercept, a 1980 thriller novel by Donald Hamilton; Operation Intercept, an anti-drug measure announced by President Nixon

  5. The misconception that chloroform can be used as an incapacitating agent [503] has been popularized by crime fiction authors. Although bananas contain naturally occurring radioactive isotopes , particularly potassium-40 ( 40 K), which emit ionizing radiation when undergoing radioactive decay , the levels of such radiation are far too low to ...

  6. Definitions of science fiction - Wikipedia

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    "A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem, and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its scientific content." [13] Basil Davenport. 1955. "Science fiction is fiction based upon some imagined development of science, or upon the extrapolation of a tendency in society." [14] Edmund ...

  7. Science fiction - Wikipedia

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    Science fiction (sometimes shortened to sci-fi or abbreviated SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.

  8. Outline of science fiction - Wikipedia

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    Science fiction genre – while science fiction is a genre of fiction, a science fiction genre is a subgenre within science fiction. Science fiction may be divided along any number of overlapping axes. Gary K. Wolfe's Critical Terms for Science Fiction and Fantasy identifies over 30 subdivisions of science fiction, not including science fantasy ...

  9. Intercept theorem - Wikipedia

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    The intercept theorem, also known as Thales's theorem, basic proportionality theorem or side splitter theorem, is an important theorem in elementary geometry about the ratios of various line segments that are created if two rays with a common starting point are intercepted by a pair of parallels.