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quaternion

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

QUATERNION

n.[L. quaternio, from quatuor, four. ] 1. The number four.
2. A file of four soldiers. Acts 12:4.

 

QUATERNION

v.t.To divide into files or companies.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

QUATERNION

Qua *ter "ni *on, n. Etym: [L. quaternio, fr. quaterni four each. See Quaternary. ]

 

1. The number four. [Poetic ]

 

2. A set of four parts, things, or person; four things taken collectively; a group of four words, phrases, circumstances, facts, or the like. Delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers. Acts xii. 4.Ye elements, the eldest birth Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run. Milton. The triads and quaternions with which he loaded his sentences. Sir W. Scott.

 

3. A word of four syllables; a quadrisyllable.

 

4. (Math. )

 

Defn: The quotient of two vectors, or of two directed right lines in space, considered as depending on four geometrical elements, and as expressible by an algebraic symbol of quadrinomial form.

 

Note: The science or calculus of quaternions is a new mathematical method, in which the conception of a quaternion is unfolded and symbolically expressed, and is applied to various classes of algebraical, geometrical, and physical questions, so as to discover theorems, and to arrive at the solution of problems. Sir W. R. Hamilton.

 

QUATERNION

QUATERNION Qua *ter "ni *on, v. t.

 

Defn: To divide into quaternions, files, or companies. Milton.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

quaternion

qua ter ni on |kwəˈtərnēən, kwä -kwəˈtərniən | ▶noun 1 Mathematics a complex number of the form w + xi + yj + zk, where w, x, y, z are real numbers and i, j, k are imaginary units that satisfy certain conditions. 2 rare a set of four people or things. ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: from late Latin quaternio (n- ), from Latin quarterni (see quaternary ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

quaternion

quaternion |kwəˈtəːnɪən | ▶noun 1 Mathematics a complex number of the form w + xi + yj + zk, where w, x, y, z are real numbers and i, j, k are imaginary units that satisfy certain conditions. 2 rare a set of four people or things. ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: from late Latin quaternio (n- ), from Latin quarterni (see quaternary ).

 

Duden Dictionary

Quaternion

Qua ter ni on Substantiv, feminin Mathematik , die |Quaterni o n |die Quaternion; Genitiv: der Quaternion, Plural: die Quaternionen Zahlensystem mit vier komplexen Einheiten