surface element

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Considering a surface element through the origin, we may choose our axes so that, for this element, z3 = z4 = ... = zn = 0.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various

This surface element, we must remember, is not income and resource, but an item of needful, and, so far as needful, graceful and economical expenditure.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 54, April, 1862 by Various

Now take the product ωdS for the surface element.

From Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work by Gray, Andrew

The condition for the reproduction of a surface element in the place of a sharply reproduced point—the constant of the sine relationship must also be fulfilled with large apertures for several colours.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg