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French polymath (1749–1827)
Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace (/ləˈplɑːs/; French: [pjɛʁ simɔ̃ laplas]; 23 March 1749 – 5 March 1827) was a French polymath, a scholar whose work has
Pierre-Simon_Laplace
Name list
Pierre-Simon is a French masculine given name, and may refer to: Pierre-Simon Ballanche (1776–1847), a French writer and counterrevolutionary philosopher
Pierre-Simon
French bowmaker
Pierre Simon (1 December 1808 – 12 December 1881), was a French archetier or musical bowmaker. Simon became one of the most important bowmakers of his
Pierre_Simon
French typographer (1712–1768)
Pierre-Simon Fournier (French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ simɔ̃ fuʁnje]; 15 September 1712 – 8 October 1768) was a French mid-18th century punch-cutter, typefounder
Pierre_Simon_Fournier
Upcoming film directed by Shawn Levy
The film stars Ryan Gosling, Flynn Gray, Matt Smith, Mia Goth, Aaron Pierre, Simon Bird, Jamael Westman, Daniel Ings, and Amy Adams. Levy entered talks
Star_Wars:_Starfighter
French climate research organization
The Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace (Pierre Simon Laplace Institute) is a French organization made up of 9 laboratories (CEREA, GEOPS, LATMOS, LERMA:TASQ
Institut_Pierre_Simon_Laplace
French male given name
Jesus gave to apostle Simon Bar-Jona, referred in English as Saint Peter. Pierre is also found as a surname. As a nickname, "Pierre" can be shortened to
Pierre
Canadian politician (born 1988)
Simon-Pierre Savard-Tremblay (born May 11, 1988) is a Canadian politician who sat in the House of Commons from the 2019 federal election until his resignation
Simon-Pierre_Savard-Tremblay
French writer and counterrevolutionary philosopher
Pierre-Simon Ballanche (4 August 1776 – 12 June 1847) was a French writer and counterrevolutionary philosopher, who elaborated a theology of progress that
Pierre-Simon_Ballanche
Simon-Pierre Mpadi (1909–after 1970) was a follower of Simon Kimbangu who later established his own Messianic Christian-inspired religious group in Congo
Simon-Pierre_Mpadi
German zoologist, botanist, and natural historian (1741–1811)
Peter Simon Pallas FRS FRSE (22 September 1741 – 8 September 1811) was a Prussian zoologist, botanist, ethnographer, explorer, geographer, geologist,
Peter_Simon_Pallas
French mathematician and engineer (1765–1836)
Pierre-Simon Girard (4 November 1765 – 30 November 1836) was a French mathematician and engineer, who worked on fluid mechanics. Girard was born in Caen
Pierre-Simon_Girard
Treatise by Pierre-Simon Laplace
mechanics") is a five-volume treatise on celestial mechanics written by Pierre-Simon Laplace and published from 1798 to 1825 with a second edition in 1829
Traité_de_mécanique_céleste
1814 essay by Pierre-Simon Laplace on probability theory and its applications
(French: Essai philosophique sur les probabilités) is an 1814 work by Pierre-Simon Laplace presenting a wide-ranging account of the meaning of probability
A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities
A_Philosophical_Essay_on_Probabilities
Mathematical rule for inverting probabilities
theorem was developed in the 18th century by Bayes and independently by Pierre-Simon Laplace. One of Bayes' theorem's many applications is Bayesian inference
Bayes'_theorem
This is a list of things named after Pierre-Simon Laplace de Moivre-Laplace theorem that approximates binomial distribution with a normal distribution
List of things named after Pierre-Simon Laplace
List_of_things_named_after_Pierre-Simon_Laplace
Concept in probability theory
interpretation of probability is identified with the works of Jacob Bernoulli and Pierre-Simon Laplace: The probability of an event is the ratio of the number of cases
Classical definition of probability
Classical_definition_of_probability
Time of day using decimal units
displayed decimal time until at least 1801. The mathematician and astronomer Pierre-Simon Laplace had a decimal watch made for him, and used decimal time in his
Decimal_time
French engraver
Pierre-Simon-Benjamin Duvivier (3 November 1730 – 10 July 1819) was a French engraver of coins and medals. Pierre-Simon-Benjamin Duvivier was born in
Pierre-Simon-Benjamin Duvivier
Pierre-Simon-Benjamin_Duvivier
Describing pressure difference over an interface in fluid mechanics
who developed the qualitative theory of surface tension in 1805, and Pierre-Simon Laplace who completed the mathematical description in the following year
Young–Laplace_equation
Topics referred to by the same term
Pierre-Simon Laplace was a French mathematician and astronomer. Laplace, LaPlace or La Place may also refer to: Laplace Island (Antarctica) La Place, Illinois
Laplace_(disambiguation)
Serif typeface
designed by Matthew Carter in 1987 for Bitstream Inc. Charter is based on Pierre-Simon Fournier’s characters, originating from the 18th century. Classified
Bitstream_Charter
Trinidad and Tobago sprinter
Simon Pierre (born 3 December 1979) is a Trinidad and Tobago sprinter. He competed in the men's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Evans
Simon_Pierre
Hypothetical all-predicting intellect
published articulation of causal determinism on a scientific basis by Pierre-Simon Laplace in 1814. According to determinism, if someone (the demon) knows
Laplace's_demon
Armed force set up in Haiti
integration. The group originally founded by former Environment Minister Pierre Simon Georges under the Moïse presidency. With the force being accused of illegal
Brigade for the Security of Protected Areas
Brigade_for_the_Security_of_Protected_Areas
French musician (born 1997)
Lewis Pierre Simon Delhomme, known professionally as Lewis OfMan, is a French record producer, musician, singer and songwriter from Paris, France. He's
Lewis_OfMan
Belief that natural wholes are similar to machines
de La Mettrie and Denis Diderot. The French mechanist and determinist Pierre Simon de Laplace formulated some implications of the mechanist thesis, writing:
Mechanism_(philosophy)
Corsican soldier executed by France for treason
Simon Petru Cristofini (1903–1943), also known as Pietro Simone Cristofini (French: Pierre Simon Cristofini), was a Corsican soldier who commanded the
Simon_Petru_Cristofini
Evidentiary standard for extraordinary claims
Similar statements were made by figures such as Thomas Jefferson in 1808, Pierre-Simon Laplace in 1814, and Théodore Flournoy in 1899. The formulation "extraordinary
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence
Extraordinary_claims_require_extraordinary_evidence
Facts provided or learned about something or someone
positing a fully predictable universe described by classical physicist Pierre-Simon Laplace as "the effect of its past and the cause of its future". Quantum
Information
Orthonormalization of a set of vectors
The method is named after Jørgen Pedersen Gram and Erhard Schmidt, but Pierre-Simon Laplace had been familiar with it before Gram and Schmidt. In the theory
Gram–Schmidt_process
Saturn's rings are made up of a series of tiny ringlets can be traced to Pierre-Simon Laplace. The rings have numerous gaps where particle density drops sharply
Rings_of_Saturn
Interpretation of probability
analysis using what is now known as Bayesian inference. Mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace pioneered and popularized what is now called Bayesian probability
Bayesian_probability
Units of measurement
based on the 1742 standard established for the Kingdom of France by Pierre Simon Fournier, but Didot modified Fournier's system by adjusting the base
Typographic_unit
French sculptor
Pierre Simon Jaillot was a French sculptor of ivory objects born in Avignon-lès-Saint-Claude, Province of Burgundy in 1631, and died on 23 September 1681
Pierre_Simon_Jaillot
Decorative detail in typography
typefaces include early on the "romain du roi" in France, then the work of Pierre Simon Fournier in France, Fleischman and Rosart in the Low Countries, Pradell
Serif
Art museum in London
Nothing, Act III, scene 1 by Jean-Pierre Simon after Matthew Peters Much Ado About Nothing, Act IV, scene 1 by Jean-Pierre Simon after William Hamilton Much
Boydell_Shakespeare_Gallery
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
weights and measures on 23 December 1793, together with mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace and several other members, for political reasons. One of his
Antoine_Lavoisier
1776 award of the Continental Congress
appointed to prepare a letter of thanks and a proper device for the medal. Pierre-Simon-Benjamin Duvivier was commissioned to design and engrave the medal. Creating
Washington Before Boston Medal
Washington_Before_Boston_Medal
Second-order partial differential equation
equation is a second-order partial differential equation named after Pierre-Simon Laplace, who first studied its properties in 1786. This is often written
Laplace's_equation
French mathematician
as a "modern-minded mathematician", who had a particular influence on Pierre-Simon Laplace. Exposé des quelques unes des vérités rigoureusement démontrées
Christophe_Gadbled
Gives power series for certain implict functions
his solution used cumbersome series expansions of logarithms. In 1780, Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827) published a simpler proof of the theorem, which was
Lagrange_reversion_theorem
American historian of science (1932–2011)
studies of the Paris Academy of Sciences and of the life and work of Pierre-Simon Laplace. Roger Hahn was born in Paris, France, on January 5, 1932, into
Roger_Hahn
Differential operator in mathematics
f (p). The Laplace operator is named after the French mathematician Pierre-Simon de Laplace (1749–1827), who first applied the operator to the study of
Laplace_operator
French intellectual and writer
Pierre-Henri Simon (16 January 1903, Saint-Fort-sur-Gironde – 20 September 1972) was a French intellectual, literary historian, essayist, novelist, poet
Pierre-Henri_Simon
died on 28 September 1752. Their sons included Pierre-Louis-Isaac (baptized 23 May 1727), Pierre-Simon-Benjamin (baptized 5 November 1730) and Thomas-Germain-Joseph
Jean_Duvivier
Probability distribution
Laplace distribution is a continuous probability distribution named after Pierre-Simon Laplace. It is also sometimes called the double exponential distribution
Laplace_distribution
Vector field representing a mass's effect on surrounding space
concept, gravity was a force between point masses. Following Isaac Newton, Pierre-Simon Laplace attempted to model gravity as some kind of radiation field or
Gravitational_field
British mathematician
appearances on In Our Time about the mathematics of Emmy Noether and Pierre-Simon Laplace and on The Infinite Monkey Cage about the nature of infinity
Colva_Roney-Dougal
American computer scientist
empirical study of generative intelligence. He is the recipient of IEEE SPS Pierre-Simon Laplace Award and British Computer Society's Karen Spärck Jones Award
William_Yang_Wang
Pierre Simon (1885–1977), was the first président-directeur général (PDG) of Électricité de France (EDF) and a member of the French Resistance. Simon
Pierre_Simon_(1885–1977)
French mathematician and physicist (1781–1840)
Polytechnique, recognized his talent early on and became his friend. Meanwhile, Pierre-Simon Laplace, in whose footsteps Poisson followed, regarded him almost as
Siméon_Denis_Poisson
Operator generalizing the Laplacian in differential geometry
generally, on Riemannian and pseudo-Riemannian manifolds. It is named after Pierre-Simon Laplace and Eugenio Beltrami. For any twice-differentiable real-valued
Laplace–Beltrami_operator
Measurement unit used in typography
15625⁄83118 mm or about 0.187986 mm.) The Fournier point was established by Pierre Simon Fournier in 1737. The system of Fournier was based on a different French
Point_(typography)
Formula in probability theory
the rule of succession is a formula introduced in the 18th century by Pierre-Simon Laplace in the course of treating the sunrise problem. The formula is
Rule_of_succession
Belgian-Australian writer, sinologist and essayist (1935–2014)
Pierre Ryckmans (28 September 1935 – 11 August 2014), better known by his pen name Simon Leys, was a Belgian-Australian sinologist and translator. He lived
Simon_Leys
Ability of a liquid to flow in narrow spaces
until 1805 by two investigators: Thomas Young of the United Kingdom and Pierre-Simon Laplace of France. They derived the Young–Laplace equation of capillary
Capillary_action
Laplacian plane of a planetary satellite, named after its discoverer Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827), is a mean or reference plane about whose axis the
Laplace_plane
Photometria (1760) Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Mécanique analytique (1788) Pierre-Simon Laplace, Traité de mécanique céleste (1798) Sadi Carnot, Reflections
List of publications in physics
List_of_publications_in_physics
Cameroonian Prime minister 1965 - 1972
Simon Pierre Tchoungui (28 October 1916 – 23 July 1997) was a medical doctor who was appointed Prime Minister of East Cameroon from October 1965 until
Simon_Pierre_Tchoungui
Canadian politician
Simon-Pierre Denys de Bonaventure (22 June 1659 – 7 February 1711) was born in Trois-Rivières, Québec to Pierre Denys de La Ronde and Catherine Le Neuf
Simon-Pierre Denys de Bonaventure
Simon-Pierre_Denys_de_Bonaventure
French footballer (born 1992)
Ousmane Simon Pierre Alexandre Dia (born 17 July 1992) is a French professional footballer who plays as a forward for Thai League 2 club Bangkok. Simon Dia
Simon_Dia
Obsolete scientific theory of heat flow
one of the greatest apparent confirmations of the caloric theory was Pierre-Simon Laplace's theoretical correction of Sir Isaac Newton’s calculation of
Caloric_theory
Serif font family
the SIL Open Font License. The typeface is inspired by the forms of Pierre Simon Fournier and is a complementary design to the Source Sans family. It
Source_Serif
French bow maker (1810–1874)
remarkable bow-makers. Peccatte’s two best-known pupils were Joseph Henry and Pierre Simon. He also purportedly taught François Xavier Bazin. Apprenticed to a violin
Dominique_Peccatte
Method for approximate evaluation of integrals
In mathematics, Laplace's method, named after Pierre-Simon Laplace, is a technique used to approximate integrals of the form ∫ a b e M f ( x ) d x , {\displaystyle
Laplace's_method
Polynomial sequence
matrix theory in Gaussian ensembles. Hermite polynomials were defined by Pierre-Simon Laplace in 1810, though in scarcely recognizable form, and studied in
Hermite_polynomials
between 1806 and 1822 at the country houses of Claude Louis Berthollet and Pierre Simon Laplace at Arcueil, then a village 3 miles south of Paris. In 1807, when
Society_of_Arcueil
French javelin thrower
Pierre Simon Grany (23 January 1899 – 21 November 1988) was a French track and field athlete who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics. In 1920, he finished
Simon_Grany
Italian type-designer, printer, and publisher (1740–1813)
printer, and publisher in Parma. He first took the type-designs of Pierre Simon Fournier as his exemplars, but afterwards became an admirer of the more
Giambattista_Bodoni
Roman Catholic bishop
Simon-Pierre Saint-Hillien C.S.C. (6 July 1951 – 22 July 2015) was a Roman Catholic bishop. Ordained to the priesthood in 1980, Saint-Hillien was appointed
Simon-Pierre_Saint-Hillien
French geographer, astronomer, and mathematician
Louis-le-Grand, and a professor and astronomer at the Paris Observatory with Pierre-Simon Laplace. Political and academic changes in France led Nicollet to travel
Joseph_Nicollet
Climate scientist
Scientist in the Climate and Environmental Sciences at the Institute Pierre Simon Laplace. She was involved in writing the IPCC Fourth and Fifth Assessment
Pascale_Braconnot
Electromagnetic radiation humans can see
sway during the eighteenth century. The particle theory of light led Pierre-Simon Laplace to argue that a body could be so massive that light could not
Light
Painting by Louis-Léopold Boilly
he exhibited at the Salon of 1804 featured the famous mathematician Pierre-Simon de Laplace. Several versions of the painting exist. An 1808 painting
The Studio of Jean-Antoine Houdon
The_Studio_of_Jean-Antoine_Houdon
Craft used in traditional typography
the market with high-quality typefaces cut in the previous century; Pierre-Simon Fournier commented that knowledge of the technique in France degenerated
Punchcutting
Determining heat transfer in a system by measuring its other properties
distinction between heat and temperature. In 1782, Antoine Lavoisier and Pierre-Simon de la Place constructed the first ice-calorimeter, launching quantitative
Calorimetry
Cosmological treatise by Immanuel Kant
accepted ideas than that of some of his contemporary thinkers, such as Pierre-Simon Laplace. Moreover, Kant's thought in this volume is strongly influenced
Universal Natural History and Theory of the Heavens
Universal_Natural_History_and_Theory_of_the_Heavens
Decorative features in Paris
Luxembourg. Louis-Simon Bralle, architect, Achille Valois, sculptor. The Fountain of the Chateau d'Eau, (1809-1812), Pierre-Simon Girard, architect.
Fountains_in_Paris
French actor and film director (born 1953)
Jean-Pierre Darroussin (born 4 December 1953) is a French actor and filmmaker. He was born in Courbevoie, France. 1992: Riens du tout (directed by Cédric
Jean-Pierre_Darroussin
Hotel in Manhattan, New York
73°58′18″W / 40.7650308°N 73.9716607°W / 40.7650308; -73.9716607 The Pierre is a luxury hotel located at 2 East 61st Street, at the intersection of
The_Pierre
Central African diplomat
Simon Pierre Kibanda (8 March 1927 – December 1999) was a Central African diplomat who held various ambassadorial positions. Kibanda was born in Kouango
Simon_Pierre_Kibanda
Problem asking the probability that the sun will rise tomorrow
his famous coverage of Thomas Bayes' foundational work in Bayesianism. Pierre-Simon Laplace approached the problem by means of his rule of succession. Let
Sunrise_problem
Canadian politician (born 1985)
Simon-Pierre Diamond (born February 9, 1985) is a politician in Quebec, Canada. He represented the Marguerite-D'Youville district in the National Assembly
Simon-Pierre_Diamond
French climatologist
and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and was director of the Pierre-Simon-Laplace Institute (2008-2019). He entered the École normale supérieure
Hervé_Le_Treut
Surname list
artist who works under the pseudonym Makyo Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant, French chess player Pierre Simon Fournier (1712–1768), French typographer
Fournier
l'Environnement (LSCE), the climate change research unit of the Institut Pierre Simon Laplace (IPSL). He is a physicist working on the global carbon cycle
Philippe_Ciais
economics Aleksandr Khinchin (1894–1959) Andrey Kolmogorov (1903–1987) Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827) Gregory Lawler (born 1955) Lucien Le Cam (1924–2000)
List of mathematical probabilists
List_of_mathematical_probabilists
Open-source statistical package
which refers to a hypothetical being capable of predicting the universe. Pierre-Simon Laplace alluded to this hypothetical being in the introduction to his
LaplacesDemon
Geodetic survey from 1792 to 1798
whose members included Jean-Charles de Borda, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Gaspard Monge and the Marquis de Condorcet, decided that the
Arc measurement of Delambre and Méchain
Arc_measurement_of_Delambre_and_Méchain
René Lalique – French glass designer Édouard Lalo – French composer Pierre-Simon Laplace – French mathematician and astronomer (remains moved to Saint
List of burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery
List_of_burials_at_Père_Lachaise_Cemetery
American astronomer and mathematician (1773–1838)
many significant scientific contributions would be a translation of Pierre-Simon de Laplace's Mécanique céleste, a lengthy work on mathematics and theoretical
Nathaniel_Bowditch
American singer-songwriter (born 1941)
Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, known for his solo work and his collaborations with Art Garfunkel
Paul_Simon
Belgian theologian and Roman Catholic bishop
Pierre Simons (1538—1605) was a theologian and the second bishop of Ypres. Simons was born at Tielt in 1538, to a farming couple, Etienne Simoens and
Petrus_Simons
Canadian-American polymath (1835–1909)
libraries. He borrowed a copy of Nathaniel Bowditch's translation of Pierre-Simon Laplace's Traité de mécanique céleste from the library of the Smithsonian
Simon_Newcomb
French film director (born 1944)
accuses directors of historical abuse". BBC news. 8 February 2024. Pierre, Simon (9 February 2024). "Affaire Judith Godrèche : le festival de cinéma
Jacques_Doillon
American actor
mid 1970s until its closure in 2000 (with his last credited role being Pierre Simon in Covert Ops: Nuclear Dawn). Aside from his acting career, Worman also
Mike_Worman
English composer
Classical. Retrieved 24 July 2020. "Fondation Prince Pierre, Simon Holt". Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco. Retrieved 25 July 2020. "The Ivors Academy
Simon_Holt
Distance along a portion of a meridian, for use in geodesy
Jean Darcet, René Just Haüy, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Pierre- Simon Laplace, Louis Lefèvre-Ginneau, Pierre Méchain and Gaspar de Prony. In 1799, a commission
Meridian_arc
Change in speed due only to gravity
concept, gravity was a force between point masses. Following Isaac Newton, Pierre-Simon Laplace attempted to model gravity as some kind of radiation field or
Gravitational_acceleration
PIERRE SIMON
PIERRE SIMON
Boy/Male
American, British, English, French, German
Pierces; Pierced Valley
Male
English
Variant spelling of English Piers, PIERCE means "rock, stone."
Male
English
Middle English form of French Pierres, PIERS means "rock, stone."
Male
English
Short form of English Percival, PERCE means "pierced valley."
Female
Yiddish
Yiddish name PERLE means "pearl."
Surname or Lastname
English and Irish
English and Irish : from the personal name Piers (see Pierce).
Male
Scandinavian
Scandinavian form of Old Norse Sverrir, SVERRE means "wild, restless."
Female
English
Variant spelling of English Sierra, CIERRA means "mountain range."
Female
English
Variant spelling of English Kiara, KIERRA means "little black one."
Surname or Lastname
English, Welsh, and Irish
English, Welsh, and Irish : from the personal name Piers, the usual Norman vernacular form of Peter. In Wales this represents a patronymic ap Piers. In Ireland it represents a reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Piarais ‘son of Piaras’, a Gaelicized form of Piers.Americanized form of some similar-sounding Jewish surname.Franklin Pierce (1804–69), 14th president of the United States, was born in Hillsborough, NH, on the New England frontier. His English ancestor Thomas Pierce emigrated to Charlestown, MA, in 1633/34.
Female
English
English name derived from the Spanish word, sierra, SIERRA means "mountain range."
Male
English
French form of Latin Petrus, PIERRE means "rock, stone."
Boy/Male
British, English
Form of Terre
Surname or Lastname
English
English : perhaps an altered spelling of French Pierre.
Boy/Male
American, Anglo, Australian, British, Christian, English, French, German, Latin
Pierces; Pierce the Vale; Pierced Valley
Female
Italian
Feminine form of Italian Piero, PIERA means "rock, stone."
Male
French
Older form of French Pierre, PIERRES means "rock, stone."
Boy/Male
Greek American French
Stone; rock.
Male
Italian
Italian form of Latin Petrus, PIETRO means "rock, stone."
Boy/Male
American, Australian, Chinese, Christian, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Swedish
Stone; A Rock; Form of Peter; Horse Lover; Rock; Strong
PIERRE SIMON
PIERRE SIMON
Girl/Female
German Teutonic
Armored battle maiden.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : apparently a patronymic from Lute.
Girl/Female
Greek
Form of Danae; the mythological mother of Perseus by Zeus.
Girl/Female
Latin
Belongs to God.
Boy/Male
African, Arabic, Australian, British, English, German, Jamaican, Muslim, Pashtun, Sindhi, Swahili, Turkish
Kind; Merciful; Compassionate
Boy/Male
Anglo Saxon
Lucky spearman.
Boy/Male
Indian, Sanskrit
Holding a Disc; Lord Vishnu
Girl/Female
English
Hidden.
Boy/Male
Tamil
One who seeks the right direction, Honoured, Admired
Female
Scandinavian
Feminine form of Scandinavian Rune, RUNA means "secret lore."
PIERRE SIMON
PIERRE SIMON
PIERRE SIMON
PIERRE SIMON
PIERRE SIMON
n.
Any butterfly of the genus Pieris and related genera. See Cabbage butterfly, under Cabbage.
n.
A ridge of mountain and craggy rocks, with a serrated or irregular outline; as, the Sierra Nevada.
n.
Alt. of Pirrie
n.
One who, or that which, pierces or perforates
n.
A literary or artistic composition; as, a piece of poetry, music, or statuary.
n.
A piercel.
n.
A kind of gimlet for making vents in casks; -- called also piercer.
n.
See Tierce, 4.
n.
A fact; an item; as, a piece of news; a piece of knowledge.
n.
A definite portion or quantity, as of goods or work; as, a piece of broadcloth; a piece of wall paper.
n.
A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. Tierce of ace, king, queen, is called tierce-major.
superl.
Furious; violent; unrestrained; impetuous; as, a fierce wind.
n.
A suddent squall. See Pirry.
imp. & p. p.
of Pierce
v. t.
To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces; to patch; as, to piece a garment; -- often with out.
v. t.
To penetrate; to enter; to force a way into or through; to pass into or through; as, to pierce the enemy's line; a shot pierced the ship.
v. t.
To pierce.
v. t.
Fig.: To penetrate; to affect deeply; as, to pierce a mystery.
n.
See Pirry.
n.
A movable and ornamental closet or piece of furniture with shelves or drawers.