Usually means: Theorem derived from another's proof.
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  1. porism: Collins English Dictionary
  2. porism: Wordnik
  3. porism: Wiktionary
  4. porism: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  5. Porism, porism: Dictionary.com
  6. Porism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. Porism: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. porism: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Porism: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. porism: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. porism: Free Dictionary
  12. porism: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
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  1. A Glossary of Mathematical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Porism: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Definitions from Wiktionary (porism)

noun:  (geometry, number theory) A proposition affirming the possibility of finding such conditions as will render a certain determinate problem indeterminate or capable of innumerable solutions.
noun:  A corollary.

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