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Archimedean

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See also:archimedean

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Etymology

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FromArchimedes +‎-an.

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Archimedean (comparativemoreArchimedean,superlativemostArchimedean)

  1. Of or pertaining toArchimedes.
    • 1629, William Bastian, “To the Authour” in Francis Malthus (translator),A Treatise of Artificial Fire-Works, London: Richard Hawkins,[1]
      ThyArchimedean hand hath learnt to frame
      Celestiall Meteors out ofNitrous flame:
    • 1717, anonymous author,British Wonders‎[2], London: John Morphew, page 2:
      […] sporting Nature, to amuse us,
      Did startling Novelties produce us;
      Mocking ourArchimedean Sons
      Of Art with strange Phænomenons,
    • 1820,Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Letter to ――”, inPosthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley‎[3], London: John and Henry L. Hunt, published1825, page59:
      Whoever should behold me now, I wist
      Would think I were a mighty mechanist
      Bent with sublimeArchimedean art
      To breathe a soul into the iron heart
      Of some machine portentous,
    • 1969,Philip Roth,Portnoy’s Complaint‎[4], New York: Random House, page223:
      […] we are leaving the Campbell house for the train station, and I have myArchimedean experience: Elm Street . . . . . then . . . . . elmtrees!
  2. (mathematics) Having no infinitely large or infinitely small elements.

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of or pertaining to Archimedes

Noun

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Archimedean (pluralArchimedeans)

  1. A member ofThe Archimedeans, the mathematical society of the University of Cambridge.
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