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optimes

optimes is the plural of optime.

Meaning of optime

Noun

optime (plural optimes)

  1. (Cambridge University) A student who graduates with second class ("senior optime") or third class ("junior optime") honours in mathematics, or (loosely) in any other subject.
    • The winning of even a single optime was very rare. Upon winning the second optime, Hamilton “became a celebrity in the intellectual circle of Dublin; and invitations, embarrassing from their number, poured in upon him. . .” (2,I; 209)1994, Michael J. Crowe, A History of Vector Analysis: The Evolution of the Idea of a Vectorial System, Courier Corporation, →ISBN, page 20

Questions about optimes

What is optimes the plural of?
Optimes is the plural of optime.

Words near optimes in the dictionary

  1. optimates
  2. optimation
  3. optimations
  4. optime
  5. optimedin
  6. optimes
  7. optimeter
  8. optimeters
  9. optimific
  10. optimisable
  11. optimisation

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