Definition of archimedean Archimedean
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What does archimedean mean?
Wiktionary 
- archimedean (Adjective)
Of or pertaining to Archimedes.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- archimedean (a.)
Of or pertaining to Archimedes, a celebrated Greek philosopher; constructed on the principle of Archimedes' screw; as, Archimedean drill, propeller, etc.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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archimedean
ärk-i-me-dē′an, adj. pertaining to Archimedes, a celebrated Greek mathematician of Syracuse (287-212 B.C.).—Archimedean screw, a machine for raising water, in its simplest form consisting of a flexible tube bent spirally round a solid cylinder, the ends of which are furnished with pivots, so as to admit of the whole turning round its axis.—Principle of Archimedes, a fundamental law in Hydrostatics, that a body when immersed in a fluid weighs less than it does in vacuo by the weight of the fluid it displaces
