Archimedean

• archimedean

From Archimedes +‎ -an.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌɑːkɪˈmiːdi.ən/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌɑːɹkɪˈmiːdi.ən/

Archimedean (comparative more Archimedean, superlative most Archimedean)

1. Of or pertaining to Archimedes.
   • 1629, William Bastian, “To the Authour” in Francis Malthus (translator), A Treatise of Artificial Fire-Works, London: Richard Hawkins,^[1]

     Thy Archimedean hand hath learnt to frame

     Celestiall Meteors out of Nitrous flame:

   • 1717, anonymous author, British Wonders‎^[2], London: John Morphew, page 2:

     […] sporting Nature, to amuse us,
     Did startling Novelties produce us;
     Mocking our Archimedean Sons
     Of Art with strange Phænomenons,

   • 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Letter to ――”, in Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley‎^[3], London: John and Henry L. Hunt, published 1825, page 59:

     Whoever should behold me now, I wist
     Would think I were a mighty mechanist
     Bent with sublime Archimedean art
     To breathe a soul into the iron heart
     Of some machine portentous,

   • 1969, Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint‎^[4], New York: Random House, page 223:

     […] we are leaving the Campbell house for the train station, and I have my Archimedean experience: Elm Street . . . . . then . . . . . elm trees!

2. (mathematics) Having no infinitely large or infinitely small elements.

Archimedean (plural Archimedeans)

1. A member of The Archimedeans, the mathematical society of the University of Cambridge.