Mobius
August Ferdinand
[ou-goo st fer-di-nahnt] /ˈaʊ gʊst ˈfɛr dɪˌnɑnt/ (Show IPA), 1790–1868, German mathematician.
Contemporary Examples
Congressional reasoning at times resembles a mobius strip of hypocrisy.
Bonfire of the Inanities Christopher Buckley March 21, 2009
also Moebius, 1904 in reference to the Mobius strip (earlier Moebius unilateral paper strip, 1899), named for German mathematician August Ferdinand Möbius (1790-1868), professor at Leipzig, who devised it and described it in 1865 (“über die Bestimmung des Inhalts eines Polyeders”, Nov. 27, 1865).
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August Ferdinand, . Contemporary Examples Moebius premiered out of competition at the Venice Film Festival, and hit theaters stateside on August 15. The Most F-ed Up Movie of the Year: ‘Moebius,’ a Castration and Incest-Fueled South Korean Satire Marlow Stern August 22, 2014 Historical Examples At present it is the school of degeneracy of Magnan […]
- Schleicher
August, 1821–68, German linguist. Historical Examples In this probably all recent philologists admit that Schleicher went too far. Darwin and Modern Science A.C. Seward and Others Schleicher takes the same view in his masterly work, Die Deutsche Sprache. Dean of Lismore’s Book Various How the new ideas struck Schleicher may be seen from the following […]
- Wassermann
August von [ou-goo st fuh n] /ˈaʊ gʊst fən/ (Show IPA), 1866–1925, German physician and bacteriologist. Jakob [yah-kawp] /ˈyɑ kɔp/ (Show IPA), 1873–1934, German novelist. Historical Examples It is even possible to have the roof fall out of the mouth from gummatous changes and the Wassermann test yet be negative. The Third Great Plague John […]
- Aught
anything whatever; any part: for aught I know. Archaic. in any degree; at all; in any respect. a cipher (0); zero. aughts, the first decade of any century, especially the years 1900 through 1909 or 2000 through 2009. to own; possess. to owe (someone or something); be obligated to. possessed of. Archaic. ownership; possession. property; […]
- Aughter
to own; possess. to owe (someone or something); be obligated to. possessed of. Archaic. ownership; possession. property; a possession. . . Historical Examples I begged, because she aughter know that is a sore point with me and not intention, and she had me on the raw. Believe You Me! Nina Wilcox Putnam Yu’d aughter be […]