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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Alexandrian scientist who invented many water-driven and steam-driven machines and devised a formula for deriving the area of a triangle from the lengths of its sides.
- noun A priestess of Aphrodite beloved by Leander.
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