Archimedean

[,ɑ:ki'mi:diәn]

Definition

(a.) Of or pertaining to Archimedes, a celebrated Greek philosopher; constructed on the principle of Archimedes' screw; as, Archimedean drill, propeller, etc.

Typist: Rosanna

Definition

adj. pertaining to Archimedes a celebrated Greek mathematician of Syracuse (287-212 B.C.).—Archimedean screw a machine for raising water in its simplest form consisting of a flexible tube bent spirally round a solid cylinder the ends of which are furnished with pivots so as to admit of the whole turning round its axis.—Principle of Archimedes a fundamental law in Hydrostatics that a body when immersed in a fluid weighs less than it does in vacuo by the weight of the fluid it displaces.

Typist: Weldon