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单词 Lucasian
释义

Lucasian

English

Etymology

Lucas + -ian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /luːˈkeɪziən/

Adjective

Lucasian (not comparable)

  1. (economics) Of or pertaining to American economist Robert Lucas Jr..
    • 1982, Frank Hahn, Monetary and Inflation, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, p. 35
      Lucas is the intellectual leader of this approach, which I shall refer to as Lucasian.
  2. (mathematics) Of or pertaining to Henry Lucas (c. 1610–1663), Member of Parliament for Cambridge University and founder of the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics.
    In 1979, Stephen Hawking became the Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge, one of Britain’s most distinguished chairs, and one formerly held by Isaac Newton.
  3. (rare) Of or pertaining to the American filmmaker George Lucas, known for his blockbuster space opera films.
    • 2002, Heather B. Armstrong, Things I Learned about My Dad.
      He was looking down at our seven-pound lump of innocence, his mind unblemished by Lucasian mythology. "Can you believe he doesn't know about Star Wars yet?"
    • 2013. Joel Black, The Reality Effect: Film Culture and the Graphic Imperative.
      In the Lucasian spectacle of carefully programmed digitalized effects, as little as possible is left to chance, to the contingencies of real life, and to the vagaries and verities of the recorded image.

Translations

Noun

Lucasian (plural Lucasians)

  1. (economics) A follower of the theories of American economist Robert Lucas Jr..
    • 1982, Frank Hahn, Monetary and Inflation, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, p. x
      In this, I have probably devoted too much attention to the economists whom I label Lucasians []
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