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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Epigraph \Ep"i*graph\, n. [Gr. ?, fr. ?: cf. F. ['e]pigraphe. See Epigram.]
Any inscription set upon a building; especially, one which has to do with the building itself, its founding or dedication.
(Literature) A citation from some author, or a sentence framed for the purpose, placed at the beginning of a work or of its separate divisions; a motto.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, "inscription on a building, statue, etc.," from Greek epigraphe "an inscription," from epigraphein "to mark the surface, just pierce; write on, inscribe; to register; inscribe one's name, endorse," from epi "on" (see epi-) + graphein "to write" (see -graphy). Sense of "motto; short, pithy sentence at the head of a book or chapter" first recorded in English 1844. Related: Epigraphic; epigraphical.\n
Wiktionary
n. 1 an inscription, especially one on a building. 2 a literary quotation placed at the beginning of a book or other text. 3 (context mathematics of a function English) the set of all points lying on or above the function's graph.
WordNet
n. a quotation at the beginning of some piece of writing
an engraved inscription
Wikipedia
In literature, an epigraph is a phrase, quotation, or poem that is set at the beginning of a document or component. The epigraph may serve as a preface, as a summary, as a counter-example, or to link the work to a wider literary canon, either to invite comparison or to enlist a conventional context.
In mathematics, the epigraph or supergraph of a function f : R→R is the set of points lying on or above its graph:
epif = {(x, μ) : x ∈ R, μ ∈ R, μ ≥ f(x)} ⊆ R.The strict epigraph is the epigraph with the graph itself removed:
epif = {(x, μ) : x ∈ R, μ ∈ R, μ > f(x)} ⊆ R.The same definitions are valid for a function that takes values in R ∪ ∞. In this case, the epigraph is empty if and only if f is identically equal to infinity.
The domain (rather than the co-domain) of the function is not particularly important for this definition; it can be any linear space or even an arbitrary set instead of R.
Similarly, the set of points on or below the function is its hypograph.
The epigraph can often be used to give geometrical intrepretations of the properties of convex functions or to prove these properties.
Epigraph may refer to:
- an inscription, as studied in the archeological sub-discipline of epigraphy
- Epigraph (literature), a phrase, quotation, or poem that is set at the beginning of a document or component
- Epigraph (mathematics), the set of points lying on or above its graph
- Epigraphs (album), an album by Ketil Bjørnstad and David Darling
Usage examples of "epigraph".
I gratefully acknowledge the following sources, not only for the information they offered me about bees, beekeeping, and honey making but also for providing the epigraph at the beginning of each chapter: The Dancing Bees by Karl Von Frisch, The Honey Bee by James L.
They contain, according to him, mostly proper names, with devotional formulae, similar to those of the Sinaitic inscriptions and the Kufic and later epigraphs which we discovered.
The coyer had flopped open to an epigraph on the first page of the 18th century tome, which read: Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causes.
The main problem is that we have no other matching epigraphs anywhere else in the world to act as a guide.