Quadrivium

[kwɒ'driviәm]

解释:

(noun.) (Middle Ages) a higher division of the curriculum in a medieval university involving arithmetic and music and geometry and astronomy.

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解释:

(n.) The four "liberal arts," arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy; -- so called by the schoolmen. See Trivium.

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解释:

n. the Pythagorean name for the four branches of mathematics—arithmetic music geometry astronomy—when preceded by the trivium of grammar logic and rhetoric—together making up the seven liberal arts taught in the schools of the Roman Empire.—adjs. Quadriv′ial Quadriv′ious.

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