Archimedean

archimedean English Alternative forms en archimedean Etymology en :af Archimedes -an + 1 Pronunciation en /ˌɑːkɪˈmiːdi.ən/ UK en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Archimedean.wav Southern England en /ˌɑːɹkɪˈmiːdi.ən/ US Adjective Of or pertaining to Archimedes. 1629, William Bastian, “To the Authour” in Francis Malthus (translator), A Treatise of Artificial Fire-Works, London: Richard Hawkins, Thy Archimedean hand hath learnt to frame Celestiall Meteors out of Nitrous flame: en 1717 anonymous British Wonders London John Morphew 2 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101036894200&view=1up&seq=8&q1=Archimedean sporting Nature, to amuse us,Did startling Novelties produce us;Mocking our Archimedean SonsOf Art with strange Phænomenons, en 1820 w:Percy Bysshe Shelley Letter to ―― Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley London John and Henry L. Hunt 1825 59 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=dul1.ark:/13960/t4bp1bc5r&view=1up&seq=77&q1=Archimedean Whoever should behold me now, I wistWould think I were a mighty mechanistBent with sublime Archimedean artTo breathe a soul into the iron heartOf some machine portentous, en 1969 w:Philip Roth Portnoy's Complaint Portnoy’s Complaint https://archive.org/details/portnoyscomplain00roth/page/223/mode/1up?q=Archimedean 223 Random House New York we are leaving the Campbell house for the train station, and I have my Archimedean experience: Elm Street ..... then ..... elm trees! en maths Having no infinitely large or infinitely small elements. Derived terms en Archimedean dual Archimedean field Archimedean graph Archimedean group Archimedean ordered field Archimedean point Archimedean principle Archimedean property Archimedean screw Archimedean solid non-Archimedean Archimedean spiral Archimedean tessellation Archimedean valuation non-Archimedean time Translations of or pertaining to Archimedes Catalan: ca arquimedià Czech: cs archimedovský Esperanto: eo arĥimeda, eo arkimeda French: fr archimédien German: de archimedisch Hungarian: hu arkhimédészi Italian: it archimedeo Portuguese: pt arquimédico, pt arquimediano Russian: ru архиме́дов Spanish: es arquimediano Noun A member of The Archimedeans, the mathematical society of the University of Cambridge. en eponyms