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English noun: Hero of Alexandria

1. Hero of Alexandria (person) Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century)


SynonymsHero, Heron


Instance hypernymartificer, discoverer, inventor, mathematician









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