Hermite

American  

[her-meet, er-meet] / hərˈmit, ɛrˈmit /

noun

1. Charles 1822–1901, French mathematician.

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Hermite

Relatives of Hermite Mercius, who died on April 18 in a Brooklyn nursing home from the virus, said the funeral home misidentified her remains, sending them a photo of someone who was not her.

From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2020

One of the earliest preparations used in sanitary work was an electrolysed sea water, usually known as Hermite Fluid.

From Chlorination of Water by Joseph Race

Hermite Island was not seen, but a small lump on the horizon, to the south of the former, was probably Lowendal Island.

From Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1 by Phillip Parker King

Vanity; but that now he is become Paisan sans rusticité, a Peasant without Clownishness, a Hermite sans patelinage, Hermit without Bigotry; and that Mon but est la tranquillité.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by Karl Ludwig von P?llnitz

A similar scheme was advocated in yet more serious earnest by M. Hermite in the early eighties.

From The Dominion of the Air; the story of aerial navigation by John Mackenzie Bacon