Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to Archimedes, a celebrated mathematician, born at Syracuse in the third century
b. c. , or to his mechanical inventions. - The hydrostatical principle, also discovered by Archimedes, that a body immersed in a fluid loses an amount of weight equal to that of the fluid it displaces.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to Archimedes, a celebrated Greek philosopher; constructed on the principle of Archimedes' screw
- adjective an instrument, said to have been invented by Archimedes, for raising water, formed by winding a flexible tube round a cylinder in the form of a screw. When the screw is placed in an inclined position, and the lower end immersed in water, by causing the screw to revolve, the water is raised to the upper end.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
Archimedes
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Examples
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He wrote a couple of books, but he never really achieved what he called his Archimedean point.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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They took the name Spiral, which refers to the Archimedean spiral, and within weeks had grown to 15 members.
Voices Stifled by Solidarity Lance Esplund 2011
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Then there are the 13 Archimedean solids (PolyhedronData [ "Archimedean"]; the cuboctahedron, icosidodecahedron, truncated cube, etc.), constructed by requiring the same configuration at each vertex, but allowing more than one kind of regular face.
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Forever seeking Archimedean levers for prying the world in directions they prefer, progressives say they embrace high-speed rail for many reasons—to improve the climate, increase competitiveness, enhance national security, reduce congestion, and rationalize land use.
Notable & Quotable 2011
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Later I happened once to tell a mathematician that I had studied non-Archimedean valuation using one of those books.
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This approach provides the Archimedean point for the creation of a very different world from the one that would have prevailed without it.
The Ten Commandments David Hazony 2010
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Initially, there will be Archimedean screws at Otterspool Weir and one at Stringer, with the possibility of more at a later date.
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In each case the money will be used to purchase and install a generating plant, which uses a modernised version of a 2,000-year-old Greek invention – the Archimedean screw – whereby power is generated by water flowing over and rotating a large metal screw.
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There is no Archimedean point of leverage from which they can be judged.
The Humanity of the Economist, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Simply start with something like the “Archimedean Screw” Demonstration and run it on the whiteboard (as seen in the picture above).
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