Quaternions - What is the English translation? English translators help arts English translators with the translation of Quaternions

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162 months ago

Saif Uddin Ahmed (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:	French > English
Subject:	Arts / Entertainment
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	Quaternions
Context:	C`est cet emploi des quaternions,atteste` aussi dans les langues indo aryennnes local.
Keywords:	Linguistic

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162 months ago

wrote:

four-letter words

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162 months ago

Rita Solis Radius - Conseil en Création Littéraire wrote:

Hypercomplex numbers or Quaternions

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162 months ago

Rita Solis Radius - Conseil en Création Littéraire wrote:

quaternions

My comment:

It is the same word as in French
Quaternions is a mathematical term discovered by Hamilton

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162 months ago

Rita Solis Radius - Conseil en Création Littéraire wrote:

quaternion

My comment:

It's mathematics, not linguistics and explained on Wikipedia. Same word in French and English.

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162 months ago

Charles Ferguson wrote:

quaternions

My comment:

quaternion /0kwəˈtə:nɪən/ noun. Also (rare) -io /-ɪəʊ/, pl. -os. LME.
[ORIGIN Late Latin quaternio(n-), from Latin quaterni: see quaternary.]

1 A group of four persons or things; spec. a set of four poems. LME.

2 A quire of four sheets of paper folded in two. E17.

†3 The number four; the number ten. Cf.

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Shorter Oxford English Dictionary 2007

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162 months ago

wrote:

D'accord.

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