stereotomy

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You continued the same inaudible murmur, with a knit brow, as is the custom of a man tasking his memory, until I considered that you sought the Greek derivation of the work 'stereotomy.'

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  1. The science or art of cutting solids into certain figures or sections.

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  • You continued the same inaudible murmur, with a knit brow, as is the custom of a man tasking his memory, until I considered that you sought the Greek derivation of the work 'stereotomy.' —  krimiblog.de
  • In the course of the last sixty years, many new sciences have taken their place in the category of our knowledge, among which is stereotomy, descriptive geometry, and the chemistry of gas. —  The Physiology of Taste
  • Here your countenance brightened up, and, perceiving your lips move, I could not doubt that you murmured the word 'stereotomy,' a term very affectedly applied to this species of pavement. —  The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1
  • I knew that you could not say to yourself 'stereotomy' without being brought to think of atomies, and thus of the theories of Epicurus; and since, when we discussed this subject not very long ago, I mentioned to you how singularly, yet with how little notice, the vague guesses of that noble Greek had met with confirmation in the late nebular cosmogony, I felt that you could not avoid casting your eyes upward to the great _nebula_ in Orion, and I certainly expected that you would do so. —  The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1
  • It comprehends mathematics, analysis applied to descriptive geometry and to the mechanism of solids and fluids, stereotomy, drawing, civil architecture, fortification, general physics, chymistry, mineralogy, and their application to the arts. —  Paris as It Was and as It Is
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  1. = French stéréotomie, from Greek στερεός, solid, + -τομία, from τέμνειν, ταμεῖν, cut.
 

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