cyclotomy

English

Etymology

From cyclo- +‎ -tomy.

Noun

cyclotomy (countable and uncountable, plural cyclotomies)

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

Derived terms

• cyclotomic