Hamiltonian
pronunciation
How to pronounce Hamiltonian in British English:
UK [ˌhæmɪl'təʊnɪən]
How to pronounce Hamiltonian in American English:
US [ˌhæmɪl'toʊnɪrn]
Word Origin
- Hamiltonian
- 1797, follower of (n.), or characteristic of (adj.), U.S. politician and statesman Alexander Hamilton (d. 1804).
Example
- 1. But this hamiltonian approach has been largely abandoned .
- 2. Hamiltonian reduction of quantum systems controlled by pulses .
- 3. Integrable hamiltonian systems on complex lie groups .
- 4. Nor did the hamiltonian scheme of federal finance guarantee a peaceful commonwealth .
- 5. This was antithetical to the hamiltonian tradition , which was much more skeptical about how much we can know and much more respectful toward the complexity of the world .