Fourier

UK:*UK and possibly other pronunciationsUK and possibly other pronunciationsEnglish: /ˈfʊərɪˌeɪ/, French: /furje/

US:USA pronunciation: respellingUSA pronunciation: respelling(fŏŏr′ē ā′, -ē ər; for 1, 2 also Fr. fo̅o̅ ryā′)



WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025
Fou•rier  (fŏŏr′ē ā′, -ē ər; for 1, 2 also Fr. fo̅o̅ ryā′),USA pronunciation n. 
    Fran•çois Ma•rie Charles  (frän swa′ ma rē′ sharl),USA pronunciation 1772–1837, French socialist, writer, and reformer. Jean Bap•tiste Jo•seph  (zhän ba tēst′ zhô zef′),USA pronunciation 1768–1830, French mathematician and physicist.
  1. a crater in the third quadrant of the face of the moon: about 36 miles (58 km) in diameter.

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
Fourier / ˈfʊərɪˌeɪ furje/
  1. (François Marie) Charles ( ʃarl ). 1772–1837, French social reformer: propounded a system of cooperatives known as Fourierism, esp in his work Le Nouveau monde industriel (1829–30)
  2. Jean Baptiste Joseph ( ʒɑ̃ batist ʒozɛf ). 1768–1830, French mathematician, Egyptologist, and administrator, noted particularly for his research on the theory of heat and the method of analysis named after him
'Fourier' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Fourier analysis - Fourier series - Fourier transform - Fourierism - Laplace transform - harmonic analysis

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