the archimedes principle
1Archimedes' Principle — Archimedes (287 212 B.C.) was a legend during his lifetime. He was a brilliant mathematician and an inventor of the Archimedes screw, a machine for raising water. Although the lever had been in use long before Archimedes, he worked out the… …
2Archimedes' principle — Archimedes prin|ci|ple the scientific rule which explains that an object in a liquid is kept up by a force which is equal to the weight of the liquid that the object ↑displaces …
3Archimedes' principle — Physics. the law that a body immersed in a fluid is buoyed up by a force (buoyant force) equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the body. * * * Law of buoyancy, discovered by Archimedes, which states that any object that is completely or… …
4Archimedes' principle — /ˌakəmidiz ˈprɪnsəpəl / (say .ahkuhmeedeez prinsuhpuhl) noun the principle that the apparent loss in weight of a body totally or partially immersed in a fluid is equal to the weight of the fluid displaced …
5Archimedes' principle — n. the law that a body totally or partially immersed in a fluid is subject to an upward force equal in magnitude to the weight of fluid it displaces …
6Archimedes' principle — [ˌα:kɪ mi:di:z] noun Physics a law stating that a body immersed in a fluid is subject to an upward force equal in magnitude to the weight of fluid it displaces …
7Archimedes' screw — was operated by hand and could raise water efficiently …
8Archimedes paradox — The Archimedes paradox, named after Archimedes of Syracuse, states that an object can float in a quantity of water that has less volume than the object itself, if its average density is less than that of water. The implication of this is that a… …
9Archimedes — For other uses, see Archimedes (disambiguation). Archimedes of Syracuse (Greek: Ἀρχιμήδης) …
10Archimedes — /ahr keuh mee deez/, n. 287? 212 B.C., Greek mathematician, physicist, and inventor: discovered the principles of specific gravity and of the lever. * * * born с 290–280 BC, Syracuse, Sicily died 212/211 BC, Syracuse Legendary Greek inventor and… …
