Archimedean
See also: archimedean
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Archimedes + -an.
Pronunciation
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Adjective
Archimedean (comparative more Archimedean, superlative most Archimedean)
- Of or pertaining to Archimedes.
- 1629, William Bastian, “To the Authour” in Francis Malthus (translator), A Treatise of Artificial Fire-Works, London: Richard Hawkins,[1]
- Thy Archimedean hand hath learnt to frame
- Celestiall Meteors out of Nitrous flame:
- 1717, anonymous, British Wonders, London: John Morphew, p. 2,[2]
- […] sporting Nature, to amuse us,
- Did startling Novelties produce us;
- Mocking our Archimedean Sons
- Of Art with strange Phænomenons,
- 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Letter to ――” in Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, London: John and Henry L. Hunt, 1825, p. 59,[3]
- Whoever should behold me now, I wist
- Would think I were a mighty mechanist
- Bent with sublime Archimedean art
- To breathe a soul into the iron heart
- Of some machine portentous,
- 1969, Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint, New York: Random House, p. 223,[4]
- […] we are leaving the Campbell house for the train station, and I have my Archimedean experience: Elm Street . . . . . then . . . . . elm trees!
- 1629, William Bastian, “To the Authour” in Francis Malthus (translator), A Treatise of Artificial Fire-Works, London: Richard Hawkins,[1]
- (mathematics) Having no infinitely large or infinitely small elements.
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Translations
of or pertaining to Archimedes
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