Fourier

[ foor-ee-ey, -ee-er; for 1, 2 also French foo-ryey ]

/ ˈfʊər iˌeɪ, -i ər; for 1, 2 also French fuˈryeɪ /

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noun

Fran·çois Ma·rie Charles

[frahn-swama-reesharl], /frɑ̃ˈswa maˈri ʃarl/, 1772–1837, French socialist, writer, and reformer.

Jean Bap·tiste Jo·seph

[zhahnba-teestzhaw-zef], /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist ʒɔˈzɛf/, 1768–1830, French mathematician and physicist.

a crater in the third quadrant of the face of the moon: about 36 miles (58 km) in diameter.

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Words nearby Fourier

Four-H Club, Four Horsemen, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Four Hundred, four-hundred-day clock, Fourier, Fourier analysis, Fourierism, Fourier series, Fourier's theorem, Fourier transform

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How to use Fourier in a sentence

Fourier contributed the foundational insight that not just sound but heat and everything we see and much else could be described as the sum of a series of waves, representing various frequencies and amplitudes.
We are awash in digital light|Chris Turner|October 27, 2021|MIT Technology Review
Fourier contributed the insight that everything we see could be described as the sum of a series of waves.
We are awash in digital light|Chris Turner|October 27, 2021|MIT Technology Review
The papers he wrote about his discovery in 1859 and then in 1861—now five years after Foote’s work—did not mention her results, although he cited those of Fourier and others.
If Only 19th-Century America Had Listened to a Woman Scientist - Issue 100: Outsiders|Sidney Perkowitz|June 2, 2021|Nautilus
At the heart of their solution is something called a Fourier layer.
Latest Neural Nets Solve World’s Hardest Equations Faster Than Ever Before|Anil Ananthaswamy|April 19, 2021|Quanta Magazine

The entire neural network is made of a handful of such Fourier layers.
Latest Neural Nets Solve World’s Hardest Equations Faster Than Ever Before|Anil Ananthaswamy|April 19, 2021|Quanta Magazine
Fourier with his phalansteries is quite forgotten, his place being taken by Marx.
Tolstoy on Shakespeare|Leo Tolstoy
"And also her reverses, my dear M. Fourier," remarked the Comte drily.
The Bronze Eagle|Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
"And you were quite right, my dear M. Fourier," said the Comte affably.
The Bronze Eagle|Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
M. Fourier was wiping the perspiration from his overheated brow.
The Bronze Eagle|Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
But at this suggestion M. Fourier was ready to burst into tears.
The Bronze Eagle|Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy

British Dictionary definitions for Fourier

Fourier

/ (ˈfʊərɪˌeɪ, French furje) /

noun

(François Marie) Charles (ʃarl). 1772–1837, French social reformer: propounded a system of cooperatives known as Fourierism, esp in his work Le Nouveau monde industriel (1829–30)

Jean Baptiste Joseph (ʒɑ̃ batist ʒozɛf). 1768–1830, French mathematician, Egyptologist, and administrator, noted particularly for his research on the theory of heat and the method of analysis named after him

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Scientific definitions for Fourier

Fourier

[ fur′ē-ā′, fōō-ryā′ ]

Baron Jean Baptiste Joseph 1768-1830

French mathematician and physicist who introduced the expansion of periodic functions in the trigonometric series that is now named for him. He also studied the conduction of heat in solid bodies.