cyclotomy

  1. Noun.  (medicine) surgical removal of the ciliary muscle; cyclicotomy.
  2. Noun.  (mathematics) the historical problems of dividing the circle into a given number of equal segments, and of constructing regular polygons.
  3. Noun.  (mathematics) the analytical extraction of the complex roots of unity; a de Moivre number.

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