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Definition of Napier
1. Noun. Scottish mathematician who invented logarithms; introduced the use of the decimal point in writing numbers (1550-1617).
Definition of Napier
1. Proper noun. (surname Scottish occupational from=Middle English dot=) for someone who sold table linen, or was in charge of the linen of a great house. ¹
2. Proper noun. John Napier, Scottish mathematician etc ¹
3. Proper noun. (surnames male given name) transferred from the surname. ¹
4. Proper noun. Any of several cities and towns, but especially Napier, New Zealand. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Napier
1. Synonym: neper. Origin: John Napier, Scottish mathematician, 1550-1617 (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Napier
Literary usage of Napier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Who's who by Henry Robert Addison, Charles Henry Oakes, William John Lawson, Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen (1897)
"James Pearse, 3rd s. of 1st Baron Napier of Magdala; b. 1849; m. ... Napier, Hon.
Mark Francis, 4th s. of 9th Baron Napier and 1st Baron Ettrick; b. ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1858)
"The Life and Opinions of General Sir Charles James Napier, ... By Major-General
WFP Napier, Member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Military Science, ..."
3. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1901)
"In these various diplomatic posts Lord Napier established a high reputation. ...
T.], told the writer of this article that he regarded Napier as the only ..."
4. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers, Thomas Thomson (1870)
"On being commissioned to effect the capture of the island, Napier waited for a few
... Napier was justly proud of this achievement, the memory of which he ..."
5. Publications by Oxford Historical Society (1899)
"But the first of them that lived there, named Edward Napier, ... William Napier,
son and heire of the said Edward Napier, by his second wife Anne, ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Napier lived, too, not only ma wild country, which was in a lawless and unsettled
state during most of his life, but also in a credulous and superstitious ..."
7. Universal Pronouncing Dictionary of Biography and Mythology by Joseph Thomas (1901)
"Captain Napier served with distinction at the reduction of Acre, in 1840, and
was rewarded ... A Napier is a man possessed of high spirits, immense courage, ..."
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