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• Diameter (category Articles containing Ancient Greek-language text)
  diameter is called the major axis. The word "diameter" is derived from Ancient Greek: (diametros), "diameter of a circle", from διά (dia), "across, through"
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• Nanometre (category Articles containing Ancient Greek-language text)
  combines the SI prefix nano- (from the Ancient Greek νάνος, nanos, "dwarf") with the parent unit name metre (from Greek μέτρον, metrοn, "unit of measurement")
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• Year (category Articles containing Ancient Greek-language text)
  Proto-Indo-European noun (with variation in suffix ablaut) are Avestan yārǝ "year", Greek ὥρα (hṓra) "year, season, period of time" (whence "hour"), Old Church Slavonic
  47 KB (5,668 words) - 04:53, 16 March 2024
• Helix (category Articles containing Ancient Greek-language text)
  helical substructures, known as alpha helices. The word helix comes from the Greek word ἕλιξ, "twisted, curved". A "filled-in" helix – for example, a "spiral"
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• Gram (category Articles containing Ancient Greek-language text)
  that the Greek γράμμα was used in the same sense at around the same time, in the 4th century, and survived in this sense into Medieval Greek, while the
  13 KB (1,420 words) - 19:03, 6 March 2023
• Thesis (category Articles containing Ancient Greek-language text)
  general claim of an essay or similar work. The term thesis comes from the Greek word θέσις, meaning "something put forth", and refers to an intellectual
  55 KB (7,478 words) - 22:03, 6 February 2024
• Hour (category Articles containing Ancient Greek-language text)
  edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0234%3Abook%3D9%3Achapter%3D15.  Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; Jones, Henry Stuart. A Greek-English Lexicon
  44 KB (5,375 words) - 22:36, 8 February 2024
• Hypothesis (category Articles containing Ancient Greek-language text)
  In its ancient usage, hypothesis referred to a summary of the plot of a classical drama. The English word hypothesis comes from the ancient Greek word ὑπόθεσις
  21 KB (2,575 words) - 21:10, 6 February 2024
• Greek numerals (category Articles containing Ancient Greek-language text)
  numbers Greek numerals, also known as Ionic, Ionian, Milesian, or Alexandrian numerals, are a system of writing numbers using the letters of the Greek alphabet
  26 KB (2,305 words) - 22:55, 6 February 2024
• Hexagon (category Articles containing Ancient Greek-language text)
  Short description: Shape with six sides In geometry, a hexagon (from Greek ἕξ, hex, meaning "six", and γωνία, gonía, meaning "corner, angle") is a six-sided
  32 KB (2,525 words) - 22:36, 8 February 2024
• Bar (unit) (category Articles containing Ancient Greek-language text)
  = 1 hectopascal (1 hPa = 100 Pa). The word bar has its origin in the Ancient Greek word βάρος (baros), meaning weight. The unit's official symbol is bar;[citation
  11 KB (1,131 words) - 19:52, 6 February 2024
• Kilogram (category Articles containing Ancient Greek-language text)
  coinage, prefixing the Greek stem of χίλιοι khilioi "a thousand" to gramma, a Late Latin term for "a small weight", itself from Greek γράμμα. The word kilogramme
  38 KB (3,566 words) - 21:46, 6 February 2024
• Rhombus (category Articles containing Ancient Greek-language text)
  rhombus with right angles is a square. The word "rhombus" comes from Ancient Greek:, meaning something that spins, which derives from the verb ῥέμβω, romanized:
  16 KB (1,615 words) - 21:55, 6 February 2024
• Philology (category Articles containing Ancient Greek-language text)
  research arose among ancient scholars in the Greek-speaking world of the 4th century BC, who desired to establish a standard text of popular authors for
  18 KB (2,078 words) - 21:20, 8 February 2024
• Taxonomy (category Articles containing Ancient Greek-language text)
  the Greek τάξις, taxis 'order' and νόμος, nomos 'law', connected by the French form -o-; the regular form would be taxinomy, as used in the Greek reborrowing
  29 KB (3,135 words) - 19:50, 8 February 2024
• Ideogram (category Articles containing Ancient Greek-language text) (section Proposed universal languages)
    Michalowski, Piotr (2008). "Sumerian". in Woodard, Roger D.. The Ancient Languages of Mesopotamia, Egypt and Aksum. Cambridge University Press. pp. 6–46
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• Steradian (category Articles containing Ancient Greek-language text)
  a sphere: [math]\displaystyle{ \Omega = \frac{A}{r^2}\ \text{sr} \, = \frac{2\pi h}{r}\ \text{sr}, }[/math] where Ω is the solid angle A is the surface
  7 KB (747 words) - 19:37, 6 February 2024
• Microbiologist (category Articles containing Ancient Greek-language text)
  investigates the characteristics of microscopic organisms A microbiologist (from Greek μῑκρος) is a scientist who studies microscopic life forms and processes.
  7 KB (742 words) - 00:02, 7 February 2024
• Heteroscedasticity (category Articles containing Ancient Greek-language text)
  vector of random variables is heteroscedastic (or heteroskedastic; from Ancient Greek hetero "different" and skedasis "dispersion") if the variability of the
  23 KB (2,783 words) - 06:37, 10 March 2023
• Skepticism (category Articles containing Ancient Greek-language text)
  Katja. "Ancient Greek Skepticism". in Zalta, Edward N.. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/skepticism-ancient/.  Thorsrud
  36 KB (3,976 words) - 17:03, 6 February 2024

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