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Archimedean spiral en · NOUN

Etymology

Named after Archimedes of Syracuse (c. 287 – c. 212 BC), a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer.

Meanings

  1. A spiral that increases in distance from the point of origin at a constant rate.
    • Max flees and tries to visit Sol, only to find that he has died. Max searches his house and finds mathematical scribblings similar to his own. On a Go board, with its pieces arranged in an Archimedean spiral, Max finds a piece of paper with the 216-digit number. 2010 November 16, Wikipedia contributors, “Pi (film)”, in English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
Archimedean spirals Number=Plur lexicographic
spiral of Archimedes alternative lexicographic
Archimedes' spiral alternative lexicographic

Hyponyms

Fermat's spiral

Relateds

logarithmic spiral

Synonyms

arithmetic spiral

Translations (10)

cs Archimédova spirála (a spiral that increases in distance from the point of origin at a constant rate) · fr spirale d'Archimède (a spiral that increases in distance from the point of origin at a constant rate) · hu arkhimédészi spirál (a spiral that increases in distance from the point of origin at a constant rate) · eo arkimeda spiralo (a spiral that increases in distance from the point of origin at a constant rate) · pt espiral de Arquimedes (a spiral that increases in distance from the point of origin at a constant rate) · fi Arkhimedeen spiraali (a spiral that increases in distance from the point of origin at a constant rate) · fi aritmeettinen spiraali (a spiral that increases in distance from the point of origin at a constant rate) · pl spirala Archimedesa (a spiral that increases in distance from the point of origin at a constant rate) · nl archimedes-spiraal (a spiral that increases in distance from the point of origin at a constant rate) · eo arĥimeda spiralo (a spiral that increases in distance from the point of origin at a constant rate)

wikipedia: Archimedes of Syracuse