[ahr-kuh-mee-dee-uh
n, -mi-dee-uhn] 
| 1. | of, pertaining to, or discovered by Archimedes. |
| 2. | Mathematics. of or pertaining to any ordered field, as the field of real numbers, having the property that for any two unequal positive elements there is an integral multiple of the smaller which is greater than the larger. |
| Ar·chi·me·des (är'kə-mē'dēz) Greek mathematician, engineer, and physicist. Among the most important intellectual figures of antiquity, he discovered formulas for the area and volume of various geometric figures, applied geometry to hydrostatics and mechanics, devised numerous ingenious mechanisms, such as the Archimedean screw, and discovered the principle of buoyancy. Ar'chi·me'de·an (-mē'dē-ən, -mĭ-dē'-) adj. |