Stevin

American  

[stuh-vahyn] / stəˈvaɪn /

noun

1. Simon 1548–1620, Dutch mathematician and physicist.

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Example Sentences

Brian was positioned at the front of the crowd, standing face-to-face with a Capitol Police officer named Stevin Karlsen, who wore a helmet and a gas mask while trying to protect himself with a four-foot-tall riot shield.

From New York Times

A rare live-action Moonbug offering, Blippi is a grinning, endlessly enthusiastic fellow played by two actors, one of whom is the character’s creator, Stevin John.

From New York Times

It stars Stevin John as Blippi and J. Kaitlin Becker as Meekah, and is set in a treehouse that includes a Maker Space, a library, and a DJ booth.

From Washington Post

Buffon could, if he wished, look back to the seventeenth century and identify a whole series of laws that had been discovered during the Scientific Revolution: Stevin’s law of hydrostatics, Galileo’s law of fall, Kepler’s laws of planetary motion, Snell’s law of refraction, Boyle’s law of gases, Hooke’s law of elasticity, Huygens’ law of the pendulum, Torricelli’s law of flow, Pascal’s law of fluid dynamics, Newton’s laws of motion and law of gravity.

From Literature

Twenty-five years later, all of these being dead, the numbers were similar: in 1608 we can count Kepler, Galileo, Harriot and Stevin.

From Literature