stereometry
English
Etymology
From Late Latin, from Ancient Greek στερεομετρία (stereometría), from στερεός (stereós, “solid”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /stɛɹiːˈɒmətɹi/
Noun
stereometry (uncountable)
- (now rare) The science of measuring the volume of solids or solid bodies.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:, New York 2001, p.106:
- from measures known it is an easy matter to rectify weights, etc., to cast up all, and resolve bodies by algebra, stereometry.
Translations
science of measuring solids
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