Euclid

American  

[yoo-klid] / ˈju klɪd /

noun

1. flourished c300 b.c., Greek geometrician and educator at Alexandria.

2. a city in NE Ohio, near Cleveland.

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Euclid British  

/ ˈjuːklɪd /

noun

1. 3rd century _bc , Greek mathematician of Alexandria; author of Elements, which sets out the principles of geometry and remained a text until the 19th century at least

2. the works of Euclid, esp his system of geometry

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Euclid Scientific  

/ yo̅o̅′klĭd /

1. Greek mathematician whose book, Elements, was used continuously until the 19th century. In it he organized and systematized all that was known about geometry. Euclid's systematic use of deductions and axioms was widely regarded as a model working method and influenced mathematicians and scientists for over two thousand years.

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Euclid Cultural  

1. An ancient Greek mathematician; the founder of the study of geometry. Euclid's Elements is the basis for modern school textbooks in geometry. One of the basic statements, or postulates, of Euclid's geometry is that if a line and a point separate from it are given, only one line parallel to the first line can pass through the point.

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Albert Einstein used other approaches to geometry to derive the theory of relativity. These “non-Euclidean geometries” deny Euclid's postulate about parallel lines.

Other Word Forms

• Euclidean
  adjective

Example Sentences

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Euclid

The school was so central to the community that in 2017 the city of South Euclid buried a time capsule on Notre Dame’s lawn, containing predictions from area children about their futures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

Euclid has already found more than that in a single year, more than doubling the known population of these extremely ancient objects.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026

Graduate students today know more math than Euclid, but that doesn’t make them greater mathematicians.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026

Around midday on Saturday, agents in three or four black SUVs and a white van arrived at the Euclid Car Wash, deploying what appeared to be a smoke canister before detaining one person.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2025

The school, a four-story brick building with a yard in front, sat just a couple of blocks from our house on Euclid.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama