单词 | supersolid |
释义 | supersolidn. Mathematics. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > [noun] > multiplication > into or by itself > other bissursolid1557 cubi-cubic number1557 surdesolid1557 sursolid1557 quadrato-quadrate1654 quaquadratea1690 quinquadratea1690 tricubea1690 triquadratea1690 supersolid1705 biquadrate1706 biquadratic1728 1705 tr. Euclid Elements Arithm. 59 A × A = AA, a Square; A × AA = AAA, a Cube; and so on... Seeing no Number measures prime Numbers, the Number of Letters cannot be Bisected, as is required to a Quadratick, nor Trisected as to a Cubical multiplication: These numbers are usually by Arithmeticians called Surdesolids or Supersolids. 2. An analogue in a space of four or more dimensions of a solid in three dimensions. ΚΠ 1839 M. Napier De Arte Logistica Joannis Naperi Introd. p. lxix This notation..gets rid of the unwieldy expedient of repeating the initials..for square, cube, and supersolid. 1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 224/2 Quantities occurring in an equation ought to be homogeneous, all of them lines, or surfaces, or solids, or supersolids. 1940 Jrnl. Philos. 37 170 The picture of the temporal history of A Square [sc. a character in the book ‘Flatland’] as a solid, of a particle as a life-line, of a man as a four-dimensional super-solid. 1997 I. Grattan-Guinness Norton Hist. Math. Sci. iv. 224 Geometrically oriented terms above three dimensions.., including ‘square of square’ for x4. The corresponding bodies were ‘supersolids’ (plusque solides). 2001 H. J. M. Bos Redefining Geom. Exactness xiv. 215 The only supersolid problems extant in the tradition around 1635 concerned higher-order angular sections and mean proportionals. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1705 |
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