Fourier

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from French Fourier.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfʊriˌeɪ/, /ˈfʊriˌər/

Proper noun

Fourier

  1. A surname from French.
    • 2009 April 16, Jon Mooallem, “The End Is Near! (Yay!)”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
      Millard’s sketch happened to look a lot like the master plan of Fourierism, one of the most popular secular utopian movements in American history. In the early 1800s, Charles Fourier, a Frenchman, proposed, in a series of jargon-filled writings, a self-sufficient community model called a “phalanx.”
    • 2016, N B Chakrabarti, “A Note on a Sum of Lognormals”, in arXiv:
      The problem of inversion of the mgf/chf of a sum of lognormals to obtain the CDF/pdf is considered with special reference to methods related to Post Widder technique, Gaussian quadrature and the Fourier series method.

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French

French Wikipedia has an article on:
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Pronunciation

Proper noun

Fourier ?

  1. a surname

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German

Etymology

Borrowed from French fourrier, derived from Old French fuerre (hay; fodder), from Frankish *fodar, from Proto-Germanic *fōdrą (fodder), whence Futter. Doublet of Furier.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fuˈʁiːɐ̯/
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Noun

Fourier m (strong, genitive Fouriers, plural Fouriere)

  1. (Austria, Switzerland, military) quartermaster
  2. (Switzerland) quartermaster sergeant (class of rank)

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