quaternion

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From Middle English quaterniǒun, from Late Latin quaterniō, from quaternī (“four each”) + -iō, from quater (“four times”). Doublet of kern. The mathematics sense was coined by Irish mathematician and astronomer William Rowan Hamilton in 1843.

18 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: кватернион (kvaternion) — a four-dimensional hypercomplex number
• Catalan: quaternió — a four-dimensional hypercomplex number
• Czech: kvaternion — a four-dimensional hypercomplex number
• Dutch: quaternion — a four-dimensional hypercomplex number
• Finnish: kvaternio — a four-dimensional hypercomplex number
• French: quaternion — a four-dimensional hypercomplex number
• German: Quaternion — a four-dimensional hypercomplex number
• Greek: τετραδόνιο (tetradónio) — a four-dimensional hypercomplex number
• Greek: τετράνιο (tetránio) — a four-dimensional hypercomplex number
• Hindi: चतुष्टयी (catuṣṭayī) — a four-dimensional hypercomplex number
• Icelandic: fertala — a four-dimensional hypercomplex number
• Italian: quaternione — a four-dimensional hypercomplex number
• Japanese: 四元数 (shigensū) — a four-dimensional hypercomplex number
• Latin: quaternio — a four-dimensional hypercomplex number
• Polish: kwaternion — a four-dimensional hypercomplex number
• Portuguese: quaternião — a four-dimensional hypercomplex number
• Russian: кватернион (kvaternion) — a four-dimensional hypercomplex number
• Spanish: cuaternión — a four-dimensional hypercomplex number