stereotomy
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- stereotomic adjective
- stereotomical adjective
- stereotomist noun
Etymology
Origin of stereotomy
Example Sentences
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It comprehends mathematics, analysis applied to descriptive geometry and to the mechanism of solids and fluids, stereotomy, drawing, civil architecture, fortification, general physics, chymistry, mineralogy, and their application to the arts.
From Paris as It Was and as It Is by Blagdon, Francis W.
In the course of the last sixty years, many new sciences have taken their place in the category of our knowledge, among which is stereotomy, descriptive geometry, and the chemistry of gas.
From The Physiology of Taste by Robinson, Fayette
It consisted in a division of the cube, or, as he called it, the stereotomy of the cube.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 331, May, 1843 by Various
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