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prosthaphaeresis

prosthaphaeresis is the alternative spelling of prosthaphæresis.

Meaning of prosthaphæresis

Noun

prosthaphæresis (plural prosthaphæreses)

  1. A method of computing by means of a table of natural trigonometrical functions, without multiplication.
  2. A reduction to bring the apparent place of a moving point or planet to the mean place.

Origin of prosthaphaeresis

From Ancient Greek προσθαφαίρεσις (prosthaphaíresis), from πρόσθεν (prósthen, “before”) plus ἀφαίρεσις (aphaíresis, “taking away”).

Words formed from prosthaphaeresis

Questions about prosthaphaeresis

What is prosthaphaeresis the alternative spelling of?
Prosthaphaeresis is the alternative spelling of prosthaphæresis.

Words near prosthaphaeresis in the dictionary

  1. prosternation
  2. prosternations
  3. prosternum
  4. prostetic
  5. prosth-
  6. prosthaphaeresis
  7. prosthaphaeretic
  8. prosthaphæreses
  9. prosthaphæresis
  10. prostheca
  11. prosthecate

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prosthaphaeresis (page history and authors); prosthaphæresis (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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