above-foundadj.
/əˈbʌvfaʊnd/, U.S. /əˈbəvˌfaʊnd/ Chiefly Mathematics and Science.
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1707 J. Ward Young Mathematician's Guide iii. vi. 350 Before I conclude this Part, I shall make some Use or Application of the above found Periphery in finding the Quantity of Angles.
1715 tr. D. Gregory Elements Astron. II. iv. §39. 568 The above-found Variation.
1766 J. Ferguson in Philos. Trans. 1765 (Royal Soc.) 55 68 Multiplying the above-found quantities by the square of the diameter.
1871 W. Chauvenet Man. Spherical & Pract. Astron. (ed. 4) II. 525 Substituting in these equations the above found values of x, y, and z, we obtain the residuals.
1902 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 10 357 The actual rate paid per bushel of wheat..will probably not have been very different from the above found rate.
1948 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 195 210 Another interesting possibility is suggested by the above-found distribution of induced currents.
1983 Brit. Jrnl. Philos. Sci. 34 53 By the argument from scale invariance the above found density function applies.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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