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AL-HAYTHAM

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Overview

AL-HAYTHAM (noun)
  The noun AL-HAYTHAM has 1 sense:

1. an Egyptian polymath (born in Iraq) whose research in geometry and optics was influential into the 17th century; established experiments as the norm of proof in physics (died in 1040)play

  Familiarity information: AL-HAYTHAM used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


AL-HAYTHAM (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An Egyptian polymath (born in Iraq) whose research in geometry and optics was influential into the 17th century; established experiments as the norm of proof in physics (died in 1040)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham; al-Haytham; Alhacen; Alhazen; Ibn al-Haytham

Instance hypernyms:

astronomer; stargazer; uranologist (a physicist who studies astronomy)

mathematician (a person skilled in mathematics)

physicist (a scientist trained in physics)


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