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Ortholisp 

A temporary and amusing speech impediment that develops after braces have been installed on one's teeth.
I couldn't understand you, Johnny. Did you say you need to go to the baff woom? Oh, you mean 'bath room', don't you? I forgot you have an ortholisp.

When I got my braces, I got this dang orffolithp (ortholisp).

He's such a geek. I mean, he was bad, but now that he's orthodolispic, he's impossible to understand.
Ortholisp by tcher2 December 29, 2009
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Ortholysis 

(noun): the wrapping around of a mathematical function under transformation into a higher nth-dimensional space where n > 2 and n ∈ ℤ+. This twisting occurs typically when a 2D function is integrated by rotating about the x-axis in order to find the volume of the 3rd-dimensional shape.

Ortholysis is used to describe this behaviour in various different sub-branches of integral calculus. The origin of this word is still unknown. However, this neologism was rumoured to have been coined by a Romanian scientist and mathematician. i
Student: "Would the integral of y=−ze^x about the x-axis give you some sort of pulsar-like ortholysis spirally thing?"
Teacher: "Sort of. It depends on your limits and of course the fact that your equation doesn't consider that a pulsar visualisation with that equation would be rotating about the y-axis!"
Teacher: "And also the fact that the center of mass is not represented accurately in any way and you'd need to make it asymptotic."
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