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Dirichlet

/ˌdɪərɪˈkleɪ/

Dirichlet proper noun: a surname from French.

Proper noun

Dirichlet

  1. A surname from French.

Origin of Dirichlet

From French de Richelette (“from Richelette”).

Words formed from Dirichlet

Phrases with Dirichlet

Questions about Dirichlet

What does Dirichlet mean?
Dirichlet means a surname from French.
What part of speech is Dirichlet?
Dirichlet is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Dirichlet?
Dirichlet is pronounced /ˌdɪərɪˈkleɪ/.

Words near Dirichlet in the dictionary

  1. dirhodium
  2. dirhombicosidodecahedron
  3. dirhombicosidodecahedrons
  4. diribonucleotide
  5. diribonucleotides
  6. Dirichlet
  7. Dirichlet character
  8. Dirichlet characters
  9. Dirichlet distribution
  10. Dirichlet distributions
  11. Dirichlet energies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Dirichlet (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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