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Cavalieri

American  
[kav-uhl-yair-ee, kah-vah-lye-ree] / ˌkæv əlˈyɛər i, ˌkɑ vɑˈlyɛ ri /

noun

  1. Francesco Bonaventura 1598–1697, Italian mathematician.


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It’s also home to pasta producers as diverse as Granoro, one of Italy’s most popular supermarket brands, and Pastificio Benedetto Cavalieri, a top-notch artisanal maker.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 26, 2025

Cavalieri had qualified the day before for what’s called the B-Main final — a class below where he usually competes.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 7, 2025

Ryan Cavalieri, a top-25 globally ranked RC driver, is a 38-year-old Huntington Beach native who grew up going to the since-shuttered SoCal RC Raceway with his father, now his pit crew chief.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 7, 2025

Twice, Cavalieri pitted to refuel, his father rapidly squeezing gas from a fuel bottle that just as easily could have held drinking water.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 7, 2025

Just as Kepler measured the volumes of barrels with his thin slices, Cavalieri added up an infinite number of these indivisible zeros to figure out the area or the volume of a geometric object.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife