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quod erat demonstrandum

[ kwawd e-raht dey-mawn-strahn-doom; English kwod er-uht dem-uhn-stran-duhm ]

Latin.
  1. which was to be shown or demonstrated.


quod erat demonstrandum

/ ˈkwɒd ˈɛræt ˌdɛmənˈstrændʊm /

(no translation)

  1. (at the conclusion of a proof, esp of a theorem in Euclidean geometry) which was to be proved QED


quod erat demonstrandum

  1. A phrase used to signal that a proof has just been completed. From Latin , meaning “that which was to be demonstrated.”


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So, never mind what such persons say, my sweetest, because they know nothing at all—quod erat demonstrandum.

Their death is merely the quod erat demonstrandum of a mathematical and mechanical proposition.

Quod erat demonstrandum—if one may be permitted to apply scholastic formulae to the science of manners.

It did at first, but inside of a week I wrote the Quod erat demonstrandum on it.

Therefore men were originally fish, quod erat demonstrandum.

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