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Definition of Flatlanders
1. flatlander [n] - See also: flatlander
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flatlanders
Literary usage of Flatlanders
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Unity in Nature: An Analogy Between Music and Life by C. E. Stromeyer (1911)
"It may also be assumed that some flatlanders are constituted like water lilies,
with stems and roots, the floating leaves of which the real flatlanders have ..."
2. Self-Neglect Among the Elderly: Maintaining Continuity of Self by Susanna D. Bozinovski (1998)
"I know- I know you would think I'm around the bend if I mentioned that, but., you
know who ' s around the bend, those stupid ca-, what we call flatlanders, ..."
3. An Essay on the Foundations of Geometry by Bertrand Russell (1897)
"Lotze says: The flatlanders would find no difficulty in a third dimension, ...
One cannot help suspecting that the flatlanders, with two instead of three ..."
4. The Journal of Science by Calcutta Asiatic Society (1885)
"Its inmates are aware of only one dimension in space, and can no more conceive
of two dimensions than the flatlanders can of three, or than we worthy ..."
5. The American Mathematical Monthly by Mathematical Association of America (1922)
"April 18: "Codes and ciphers" by Elsie Watson'21; "A play—The flatlanders"; "The
fourth dimension" by Professor Everett. April 25: "Einstein's theory of ..."
6. A Scrap-book of Elementary Mathematics: Notes, Recreations, Essays by William Frank White (1908)
"Then after a minute she said, "I thought the flatlanders were regular geometric
figures." Phool laughed at this with so much enjoyment that Alice laughed ..."
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