Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hamiltonian

/ˌhæmɪlˈtoʊ.ni.ən/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 2.75 in modern English

Syllables: hamil-ton-ian
IPA: /ˌhæmɪlˈtoʊ.ni.ən/

16

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of, attributed to or inspired by the Irish mathematician, astronomer and physicist William Rowan Hamilton (1805–1865).

adj

That visits each vertex exactly once.

adj

Containing a Hamiltonian cycle.

adj

Advocated by American politician Alexander Hamilton (1755–1804).

American usage

adj

Relating to James Hamilton (1769–1831), or his method of teaching languages without grammar, by a literal interlinear word-for-word translation.

adj

Of, relating to, or in the literary style of Edmond Hamilton (1904–1977), American science fiction writer.

adj

Relating to Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet (1788–1856), Scottish metaphysician.

noun

A function (of time), denoted H, that corresponds to the total energy of the system.

Example Sentences

"Using the correction of a vector field to characterize isochronicity and explicit computations of this quantity for polynomial vector fields, wa are able to describe a very large class of nonisochronous Hamiltonian system of even degree of degree arbitrary large."
"We contrast this with the case of sampling from the output of a quantum computer running the Quantum Adiabatic Algorithm (QADI) with the restriction that the Hamiltonian that governs the evolution is gapped and stoquastic."
"As stoquastic problems we use frustrated Ising Hamiltonians, having random local X and Z ﬁelds, and random σ_zσ_z couplings."

Etymology

Etymology tree English Hamilton Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Proto-Italic *-ānos Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English Hamiltonian From Hamilton (a surname) + -ian.

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˌhæmɪlˈtoʊ.ni.ən/
British English: /ˌhæmɪlˈtəʊ.ni.ən/

Usage

American usage

Inflected Forms

Hamiltonians (plural) more Hamiltonian (comparative) most Hamiltonian (superlative)

Derived Forms

Hamiltonianness hypohamiltonian pseudohamiltonian H Kamiltonian bihamiltonian hyperhamiltonian

Phrases

Hamiltonian constraint Hamiltonian cycle Hamiltonian path Hamiltonian spite

Rhymes With

smithsonian estonian macedonian babylonian caledonian devonian draconian amazonian newtonian ionian oregonian jeffersonian

Questions

How do you pronounce hamiltonian?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˌhæmɪlˈtoʊ.ni.ən/.
What does hamiltonian mean?: Of, attributed to or inspired by the Irish mathematician, astronomer and physicist William Rowan Hamilton (1805–1865).
Where does hamiltonian come from?: Etymology tree English Hamilton Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Proto-Italic *-ānos Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English Hamiltonian From Hamilton (a surname) + -ian.

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