stereometry

English

Etymology

From Late Latin, from Ancient Greek στερεομετρία (stereometría), from στερεός (stereós, “solid”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /stɛɹiːˈɒmətɹi/

Noun

stereometry (uncountable)

1. (now rare) The science of measuring the volume of solids or solid bodies.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
     , New York 2001, p.106:

     from measures known it is an easy matter to rectify weights, etc., to cast up all, and resolve bodies by algebra, stereometry.

Translations

science of measuring solids

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