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Archimedes' screw
noun: a device made of a tube bent spirally around an axis or of a broad-threaded screw encased by a cylinder and used to raise water
Archimedes' principle
noun: a law of fluid mechanics: a body while wholly or partly immersed in a fluid apparently loses weight by an amount equal to that of the fluid displaced
Archimedes' problem
noun: the mathematical problem of bisecting the volume of a hemisphere by means of a plane parallel to the base insoluble by Euclidean methods
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