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quaternion

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10 lettersPronunciation /kwəˈtɜːni.ən/Part of speech nounSorted aeinnoqrtuStarts with QEnds with N0 clues
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Definitions

  1. the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one

Word origin

From Middle English quaterniǒun, from Late Latin quaterniō, from quaternī (“four each”) + -iō, from quater (“four times”). Doublet of kern. The mathematics sense was coined by Irish mathematician and astronomer William Rowan Hamilton in 1843.

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  • Then wer the dayes of unlevended breed, and when he had caught hym, he put him in preson, and delyvered hym to iiij. quaternions off soudiers to be kepte, entendynge after ester to brynge hym forth to the people.
  • In his general deportment he was pompous and important, affecting a species of florid elocution, which often became ridiculous from his misarranging the triads and quaternions with which he loaded his sentences.
  • The right-hand side of the quaternion equation requires scalar multiplication and quaternion addition.

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