fourier
/ˈfʊrieɪ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.07 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A surname from French.
Example Sentences
- "Millard’s sketch happened to look a lot like the master plan of Fourierism, one of the most popular secular utopian movements in American history. In the early 1800s, Charles Fourier, a Frenchman, proposed, in a series of jargon-filled writings, a self-sufficient community model called a “phalanx.”"
- "The problem of inversion of the mgf/chf of a sum of lognormals to obtain the CDF/pdf is considered with special reference to methods related to Post Widder technique, Gaussian quadrature and the Fourier series method."
Etymology
Borrowed from French Fourier.
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Military.
Derived Forms
Phrases
Budan-Fourier theorem
discrete Fourier transform
fast Fourier transform
Fourier analysis
Fourier-Budan theorem
Fourier coefficient
Fourier-Mukai transform
Fourier series
Frequently Paired Words
French mathematician Joseph Fourier
French utopian socialist and philosopher Charles Fourier