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Hero of Alexandria
DEFINITIONS OF:
Hero of Alexandria
1
n
Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century)
Synonyms:
Hero
,
Heron
Example of:
artificer
,
discoverer
,
inventor
someone who is the first to think of or make something
mathematician
a person skilled in mathematics
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