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English
Etymology
From Archimedes + -an.
Pronunciation
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,
- Thy Archimedean hand hath learnt to frame
- Celestiall Meteors out of Nitrous flame:
1717, anonymous author, British Wonders, 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, 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, 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!
- (mathematics) Having no infinitely large or infinitely small elements.
Derived terms
Translations
of or pertaining to Archimedes
Noun
Archimedean (plural Archimedeans)
- A member of The Archimedeans, the mathematical society of the University of Cambridge.