HyperDic: hero_of_alexandria

English > 1 sense of the expression Hero of Alexandria:
NOUNperson Hero of Alexandria, Hero, HeronGreek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century)
English > Hero of Alexandria: 1 sense > noun 1, person
MeaningGreek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century).
SynonymsHero, Heron
Instance ofinventor, discoverer, artificersomeone who is the first to think of or make something
mathematicianA person skilled in mathematics

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