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voudon

voudon is the alternative form of voodoo.

Meaning of voodoo

Noun

voodoo (countable and uncountable, plural voodoos)

  1. Any of a group of related religious practices found chiefly in and around the Caribbean, particularly in Haiti and Louisiana.
    • Years later, she had found out about the Voodoo drink - a concoction of rum, gunpowder, grave-dirt and human blood. She almost retched as the taste came back to her mouth.1954, Ian Fleming, “Allumeuse”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 109
  2. The spiritual beliefs of the Ewe/Fon of West Africa, practiced chiefly in Benin and in the south of Togo.
  3. (derogatory) Any sort of magical or irrational approach to a problem.
    • I want a real explanation, not this statistical voodoo.
  4. (dated) One who practices voodoo; a native sorcerer.
    • So a reporter of the Boston Herald (U.S.) has 'interviewed' a few local Voodoos. He has seen a dance round a boiling pot, seen some tomfoolery with spiders, and heard a lot of superstitious stories.1889, Longman's Magazine, volume 14, page 557

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Noun

voudon (plural voudons)

  1. A 256-dimensional hypercomplex number.
    • Following the convention adopted by Tony Smith, who has called the 2⁸-ions Voudons after the 256 deities of the Ifa pantheon of Voodoo or Voudon2002, Robert P. C. de Marrais, “Flying Higher Than a Box-Kite: Kite-Chain Middens, Sand Mandalas, and Zero-Divisor Patterns in the 2ⁿ-ions Beyond the Sedenions”, in arXiv, →DOI, page 7
    • According to the logic of doubling the dimensions on which Cayley–Dickson algebra is built, after quaternions the so-called 8D octonions (#92;mathbbO—Octonions) can be obtained, followed by 16D sedenions, 32D pathions, 64D chingons, 128D routons, and 256D voudons.2022, Zlatka Valkova-Jarvis, Vladimir Poulkov, Viktor Stoynov, Dimitriya Mihaylova, Georgi Iliev, “A Method for the Design of Bicomplex Orthogonal DSP Algorithms for Applications in Intelligent Radio...

Forms of voudon

pluralvoudons

Origin of voudon

See voodoo.

Blend of voudou + quaternion. Named after the 256 Ifá divination signs in West African voodoo.

Questions about voudon

What does voudon mean?
Voudon means a 256-dimensional hypercomplex number.
What is voudon the alternative form of?
Voudon is the alternative form of voodoo.
What part of speech is voudon?
Voudon is a noun.
What is the plural of voudon?
The plural of voudon is voudons.

Words near voudon in the dictionary

  1. vouchsafes
  2. vouchsafest
  3. vouchsafeth
  4. vouchsafing
  5. vouchsafings
  6. voudon
  7. voudons
  8. voudou
  9. voudoued
  10. voudouing
  11. voudoun

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Adapted from Wiktionary: voudon (page history and authors); voodoo (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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