Harriot

Proper noun

Meaning

Harriot

A surname transferred from the given name.

Examples

One of the first algebraists to accept negative numbers was... placed negative numbers on a par with positive numbers and gave both roots of a quadratic equation, even when both were negative. Both Girard and Harriot used the minus sign for the operation of subtraction and for negative numbers. Morris Kline

Elizabeth Cady Stanton in her later years Stanton was also active internationally, spending a great deal of time in Europe, where her daughter and fellow feminist Harriot Stanton Blatch lived. Source: Internet

One reader has described it as a mix of Delia Smith and Ainsley Harriot with the charm and charateristics of the good old Nanny Ogg. Source: Internet

Michael Harriot for The Root, writing about why Facebook declared “Donald Trump’s favorite black women” unsafe, knocked “Q. Source: Internet

Later in life, Elizabeth named her two daughters after two of her sisters, Margaret and Harriot. Source: Internet

Thomas Harriot seems to have been the first to derive and write formulas for sums of powers using symbolic notation, but even he calculated only up to the sum of the fourth powers. Source: Internet

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