单词 | stereometry |
释义 | stereometryn. Now rare. 1. The art or science of measuring solids; that branch of geometry which deals with solid figures, solid geometry; the practical application of this to the measurement of solid bodies. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > geometry > [noun] > branches of planimetrya1393 conic?a1560 helicosophy1570 stereometry1570 spheric1660 planometry1669 mensuration1704 polygonometry1791 analytical geometry1802 isoperimetry1811 analytic geometry1817 algebraic geometry1821 coordinate geometry1837 non-Euclidean geometry1872 differential geometry1877 pangeometry1878 projective geometry1878 metageometry1890 Riemann geometry1895 variable geometry1957 1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. aiij v The generall name of these Solide measures, is Stereometrie. 1594 R. Ashley tr. L. le Roy Interchangeable Course xii. f. 128 Plato affirmeth, that Geometrie was vnperfect in his time, and that Stereometrie, and the Cubike wanted. 1608 R. Norton tr. S. Stevin Disme: Art of Tenths sig. D4 Gaudgerie is Stereometrie..but all Stereometrie is not Gaudgerie. 1619 H. Lyte Art of Tens 21 Likewise may you finde the stirometrie or square of anie thing by the foresaid table. 1673 J. Smith (title) Stereometrie. Or the art of practical gauging. 1674 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 9 88 In Stereometry, or Measuring of Solids as a tapering Timber. 1683 T. Everard (title) Stereometry made easie, or The description and use of a new Gauging rod, or Sliding rule. 1795 T. Maurice Hist. Hindostan (1820) I. i. xii. 439 From planimetry, or the mensuration of surfaces, they..proceeded to..stereometry, or the mensuration of solids. 1827 Gutteridge (title) A New System of Stereometry. 1874 Edinb. Rev. July 175 The text [of Dürer]..is full of detailed measurements, and calculations of the stereometry, or solid contents, of the several limbs. Categories » 2. The art of measuring specific gravities with a stereometer n.1 (sense 1). (In recent dictionaries.) This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1570 |
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