mesolabe
English
Etymology
Latin mesolabium, from Ancient Greek [Term?] (“middle”) and [Term?] (“to take”).
Noun
mesolabe (plural mesolabes)
- (historical) An ancient instrument for finding two mean proportionals between two given lines, required in solving the problem of the duplication of the cube.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for mesolabe in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)