cyclotomy

English

Etymology

cyclo- +‎ -tomy

Noun

cyclotomy (countable and uncountable, plural cyclotomies)

  1. (medicine) surgical removal of the ciliary muscle
  2. (mathematics) the historical problems of dividing the circle into a given number of equal segments, and of constructing regular polygons
  3. (mathematics) the analytical extraction of the complex roots of unity; a de Moivre number
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.