About The Word Quaternion
Learn about the word Quaternion to help solve your crossword puzzle. Discover Quaternion definitions and meaning, origins, synonyms, related terms and more at the free Crossword Dictionary.
Quaternion
Quaternion Definition And Meaning |
---|
What's The Definition Of Quaternion?
[n] the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one
Synonyms | Synonyms for Quaternion: 4 | four | foursome | IV | Little Joe | quadruplet | quartet | quatern | quaternary | quaternity | tetrad Related Terms | Find terms related to Quaternion: Quaternion In Webster's Dictionary \Qua*ter"ni*on\, n. [L. quaternio, fr. quaterni four
each. See {Quaternary}.]
1. The number four. [Poetic]
2. A set of four parts, things, or person; four things taken
collectively; a group of four words, phrases,
circumstances, facts, or the like.
Delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers.
--Acts xii. 4.
Ye elements, the eldest birth Of Nature's womb, that
in quaternion run. --Milton.
The triads and quaternions with which he loaded his
sentences. -- Sir W.
Scott.
3. A word of four syllables; a quadrisyllable.
4. (Math.) The quotient of two vectors, or of two directed
right lines in space, considered as depending on four
geometrical elements, and as expressible by an algebraic
symbol of quadrinomial form.
Note: The science or calculus of quaternions is a new
mathematical method, in which the conception of a
quaternion is unfolded and symbolically expressed, and
is applied to various classes of algebraical,
geometrical, and physical questions, so as to discover
theorems, and to arrive at the solution of problems.
--Sir W. R. Hamilton.
\Qua*ter"ni*on\, v. t. To divide into quaternions, files, or companies. --Milton. |
More Crossword Puzzle Words
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
Cross Word Of The Day
- Idle wheel ‐ a pulley on a shaft that presses against a guide belt to guide…
- Savin ‐ procumbent or…
- Cram full ‐ packed full to capacity; "chowder chockablock with pieces of…
- Lamb's lettuce ‐ widely cultivated as a salad crop and pot herb;…
- Bismarck sea ‐ World War II naval battle; Allied land-based bombers destroyed…
- Indiscriminating ‐ not…
- Astragalus danicus ‐ perennial of southern and western Europe having dense racemes…
- Coniferophytina ‐ cone-bearing gymnosperms dating from the Carboniferous period;…
- Unvaried ‐ not diversified [adj]…
- Animal group ‐ a group…