Archimedean
Americanadjective
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of, relating to, or discovered by Archimedes.
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Mathematics. of or relating to any ordered field, as the field of real numbers, having the property that for any two unequal positive elements there is an integral multiple of the smaller which is greater than the larger.
Etymology
Origin of Archimedean
First recorded in 1805–15; Archimede(s) + -an
Example Sentences
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“What I always tell students is that when it comes to the complex world that people live in and make and change, there is no single Archimedean point of truth,” she says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
When he carves the peel of an apple into “a perfect Archimedean spiral,” finding a “sense of order and well-being” in “the ever-growing distance of the peel from the core,” you can’t help applauding.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2023
“Imagine the equation, or picture the graph, of the Archimedean spiral,” Serpell, a Harvard English professor, writes in the novel’s closing paragraph.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 22, 2022
It’s a bit of collateral resonance, then, that by imagining viewing the Earth from an Archimedean point, astronomers move the Earth, too, if the Earth is the world from which we view the cosmos.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2021
While he was lecturing Frank and Percy on Archimedean mechanics, Hazel stared at the stone archway and muttered under her breath.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
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