archimedes

Speech parts

1. archimedes - Noun

2. Archimedes - Proper noun

Meaning

An extinct genus of Bryzoa characteristic of the subcarboniferous rocks. Its form is that of a screw.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

scientist inventor physicist geometer archimedean

Phrases with the word

Archimedes' constant Archimedes number

Examples

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life. Ernest Renan

Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance of whatever it may mean. G. H. Hardy

YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a living Homer. Ambrose Bierce

O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth! Mikhail Lermontov

Archimedes had stated, that given the force, any given weight might be moved; and even boasted that if there were another earth, by going into it he could remove this. Plutarch

About Archimedes one remembers that he did strange things: he ran around naked shouting Heureka!, plunged crowns into water, drew geometric figures as he was about to be killed, and so on. ... One ends up forgetting he was a scientist of whom we still have many writings. Lucio Russo

Close letter words and terms

Archimedean solid Archimedean spiral archimedean tessellation Archimedes number Archimedes screw Archimedes' constant