stereometry

English

Etymology

From Late Latin, from Ancient Greek στερεομετρία (stereometría), from στερεός (stereós, “solid”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /stɛɹiːˈɒmətɹi/

Noun

stereometry (uncountable)

1. (now rare) The science of measuring the volume of solids or solid bodies.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
     , New York 2001, p.106:

     from measures known it is an easy matter to rectify weights, etc., to cast up all, and resolve bodies by algebra, stereometry.

Translations

science of measuring solids

• French: stéréométrie (fr) f
• German: Stereometrie f
• Italian: stereometria (it) f
• Kazakh: стереометрия (stereometriä)
• Kyrgyz: стереометрия (stereometriya)
• Latvian: stereometrija (lv) f
• Macedonian: стереометрија f (stereometrija)
• Polish: stereometria (pl) f