Eureka (French automobile)
WordNet

noun


(1)   A town in northwest California on an arm of the Pacific Ocean
(2)   An alloy of copper and nickel with high electrical resistance and a low temperature coefficient; used as resistance wire
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Etymology


From , perfect active indicative 1st singular of .

Quotations

  • 1821: Eureka! I have found it! What I mean / To say is, not that love is idleness, / But that in love such idleness has been / An accessory, as I have cause to guess. — Byron, Don Juan, 1821
  • 1970: A page is turned - eureka, a snatch of tune / is playing itself, the piss-proud syllables / are unveiling a difficult prosody — Peter Porter, The Sanitized Sonnets, in The Last of England, 1970
 
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