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archimedean
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Archimedean \Ar`chi*me*de"an\, a. [L. Archimedeus.] Of or pertaining to Archimedes, a celebrated Greek philosopher; constructed on the principle of Archimedes' screw; as, Archimedean drill, propeller, etc.
Archimedean screw, or Archimedes' screw, 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.
--Francis.
[1913 Webster] ||
Wiktionary
a. (alternative case form of Archimedean English)
Wikipedia
Archimedean means of or pertaining to or named in honor of the Greek mathematician Archimedes and may refer to:
- Archimedean absolute value
- Archimedean copula
- Archimedean field
- Archimedean point
- Archimedean property
- Archimedean screw
- Archimedean solid
- Archimedean spiral
- Archimedean tiling
- Claw of Archimedes
Usage examples of "archimedean".
Michigan plant of Archimedean, Johnny Barefoot appeared for his appointment with Kathy and found her in a state of gloom.
He wondered what became of Archimedean Enterprises if Kathy was declared unable to manage her affairs, if she was forcibly committed.
As the ship approaches the Sun, it will monitor the magnetic field direction and determine if the Archimedean spiral of the solar wind is oriented outward.
Archimedes run off with a belly-dancer from Bayonne, New Jersey, who promised to teach him about spirals and specific gravity and the Archimedean screw.
They turned Archimedean screws to bring water from the Margush into the irrigation canals.
Peter the Hermit, Calvin, and Robespierre, each at an interval of three hundred years and all three from the same region, were, politically speaking, the Archimedean screws of their age,--at each epoch a Thought which found its fulcrum in the self-interest of mankind.
He soon after went to Buffalo, and contracted for a boat to be built, with two of his Archimedean screws for propulsion by steam.
He was the author of numerous inventions, including the cagniardelle, a blowing machine, which consists essentially of an Archimedean screw set obliquely in a tank of water in such a way that its lower end is completely and its upper end partially immersed, and operated by being rotated in the opposite direction to that required for raising water.
And this, more or less, is the sort of botanical knowledge I am equipped with, until that Sunday afternoon when we are leaving the Campbell house for the train station, and I have my Archimedean experience: Elm Street .
Other robots, small cars on caterpillar tracks, operated by Archimedean screws moved noiselessly down into the depths.
The beanstalk was moving faster now, arcing in towards Earth along the smooth curve of an Archimedean spiral.
Since his demob from the Fleet, a year after all the hysteria of the Canes Venatici incident had come to nothing but the same kind of worn diplomacy that had begun it, he had worked all over the sky, traveling a slow Archimedean spiral in three dimensions, tracking in from Venatici through the Crow and the Heavy Stars.