Antikythera

American  

[an-ti-ki-theer-uh, ahn-dee-kee-thee-rah] / ˌæn tɪ kɪˈθɪər ə, ˌɑn diˈki θi rɑ /

Greek Andikithira

noun

1. an island in the eastern Mediterranean, northwest of Crete: archaeological site. 8½ sq. mi. (22 sq. km).

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Example Sentences

This sequence is ostensibly there to introduce the film’s MacGuffin, Archimedes Antikythera, a real celestial calculation machine with extraordinary predictive capabilities that in the film is bestowed with some otherworldly powers.

From Washington Times • Jun. 27, 2023

Its treasures include the 3,500-year-old gold funerary mask known as the Mask of Agamemnon and the Antikythera Mechanism, a device used to track the sun, moon and planets.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 15, 2023

Each item excavated from the Antikythera shipwreck will be studied in an effort to piece together the story of the crew and the wreck, said Carlo Beltrame, an archaeology professor at the University of Venice.

From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2022

In response to Gilinsky: The Antikythera mechanism must indeed have been made with great precision for its time—it was perhaps not as accurate as a modern watch but very well made for ancient Greece.

From Scientific American • May 5, 2022

Driven off course, the captain sought shelter next to a rocky, barren, almost totally uninhabited small island that in ancient times had been called both Aeigilia and Cerigotto, but which now was called Antikythera.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler