Archimedean
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See also: archimedean
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Etymology[edit]
From Archimedes + -an.
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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 author, British Wonders[2], London: John Morphew, page 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[3], London: John and Henry L. Hunt, published 1825, page 59:
- 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[4], New York: Random House, page 223:
- […] 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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of or pertaining to Archimedes
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Noun[edit]
Archimedean (plural Archimedeans)
- A member of The Archimedeans, the mathematical society of the University of Cambridge.