Cyclopædia
Assuming numeral is required, the following 30 results were found.
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NUMERATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/NUMERATION
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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THE PREFACEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/preface
'TIS not without some Concern that I put this Work in the Reader's Hands; a Work so disproportionate to a single Person's Experience, and which might have employ'd an Academy. What adds to my Jealousy, is the little measure of Time allow'd for a...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Introduction
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NUMERICALhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/NUMERICAL
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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NUMERATORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/NUMERATOR
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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NUMERALShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/NUMERALS
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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Numerous ARITHMETIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/arithmetic/Numerous-ARITHMETIC
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Arithmetic
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ARABIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARABIC
a Lion; two hundred for a Serpent; and eighty for Honey. See WORD, ALPHABET, etc. Arabic Figures, or Characters, are the Numeral Characters commonly made use of in large Computations. See FIGURE, NUMERAL, etc. The Arabic Characters stand...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ALGEBRAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALGEBRA
which are certainly known, and consequently itself is known. See QUANTITY, and ARITHMETIC. Algebra is of two Kinds, viz. Numeral, and Literal.Numeral, or Vulgar Algebra, is that of the Ancients, which only had place in the Resolution of Arithmetical...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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NUMERAL Lettershttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/NUMERAL-Letters
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ARITHMETIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARITHMETIC
Arithmetic, is that which gives the Calculus, of Numbers or indeterminate Quantities;and is performed by the common Numeral, or Arabic Characters. See ARABIC and CHARACTER. Specious Arithmetic, is that which gives the Calculus of Quantities;using...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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Ahttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/grammar/A
inserted an h between 'em, Ahala : At length they sell to the common long Accent āla, or Āla. See ACCENT. A was one of the Numeral Letters among the Antients, and signify'd 500. With a Dash atop, ā, it slood for 5000. See CHARACTER. Baronius gives us a...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Grammar
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ANAGRAMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANAGRAM
Name of Louis XIV. made Vrai Heros, i.e., true Hero. We are now likewise furnished with the Numerical Anagram; where the numeral Letters (i.e., such as in the Roman cyphering stood for Numbers) taken together, according to their numerical Values,...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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AIRhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/AIR
AIR, Air, in Physics, a thin, fluid, transparent, compressible, and dilatable Body; surrounding the terraqueous Globe to a considerable Height. See EARTH, and TERRAQUEOUS. It's considered by some of the Ancients as an Element; but then, by Element they...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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TO THE KINGhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/to-the-king
SIR, THE ARTS and SCIENCES humbly crave Audience of Your Majesty. The near Concern they have in the Happiness of a People, assures 'em of the favourable Attention of a Prince who makes that Happiness his own. 'Tis by These, the Parsimony of Nature is...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Introduction
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Arithmetichttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/arithmetic
ARITHMETIC, including the Doctrine of DISCRETE or Discontinuous QUANTITY, viz. Number, Ratio, Proportion,&c. Kinds, as Integer, Fraction, Decimal, Surd, &c. Relations, as Root, Power, Square, Cube, &c. Rules or Operations thereof, as Notation,...
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VIEW OF KNOWLEDGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/view-of-knowledge
1 METEOROLOGY, or the History of AIR and ATMOSPHERE: including, 1°, that of its Contents, Æther,Fire,Vapour, Exhalation, &c. 2°, Meteors form'd therein, as Cloud, Rain, Shower, Drop, Snow, Hail, Dew, Damp, &c. Rainbow, Parhelion, Halo, Thunder, Water-...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Introduction
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ADVENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/chronology/ADVENT
ADVENT, Adventurus, in the calendar, the time immediately preceding Christmas; anciently employed in pious preparation for the Adventus, or coming on, of the Feast of the Nativity. See NATIVITY, etc. Advent includes four Sundays or weeks; commencing...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Chronology
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ALPHAhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ALPHA
ALPHA, the Name of the first Letter of the Greek Alphabet. See LETTER, and ALPHABET. The Alpha, in Composition, denotes, sometimes, Privation, in the same Sense with an, without; sometimes Augmentation, as dyer, much; and sometimes Union, as aves...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ACThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ACT
ACT, Actus, in Physics, an effective exercise or application of some power or faculty. See ACTION. In this sense, the word Act stands opposed to Power, Potentia, which is the capacity of acting. See POWER and POTENTIA. Though the word Act, properly and...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Physics
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ACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ACTION
ACTION, Actio, in Physics, is the production of an effect or the manner of an active cause. See ACTION and ACTIVE. The idea of action is so familiar to us that a definition may as easily obscure as explain it. Some Schoolmen, however, attempt to...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Physics