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