English Explanatory Dictionary

cyclotomy

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. surgical removal of the ciliary muscle
  2. the historical problems of dividing the circle into a given number of equal segments, and of constructing regular polygons
  3. the analytical extraction of the complex roots of unity; a de Moivre number

Word forms

cyclotomy cyclotomies

Etymology

From cyclo- + -tomy.

Derived words

cyclotomic
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