“Archimedes '”

The following 3 entries include the term Archimedes '.

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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