Synonyms for laplace
ləˈplɑslaplace

Princeton's WordNet

1. Laplace, Marquis de Laplace, Pierre Simon de Laplacenoun

   French mathematician and astronomer who formulated the nebular hypothesis concerning the origins of the solar system and who developed the theory of probability (1749-1827)

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   • Mathematician

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1. The Egyptian investigation committee:

   Search equipment aboard French naval vessel Laplace ... has detected signals from the seabed of the search area, which likely belong to one of the data boxes.

2. Clifford Truesdell:

   How did Biot arrive at the partial differential equation? [the heat conduction equation] . . . Perhaps Laplace gave Biot the equation and left him to sink or swim for a few years in trying to derive it. That would have been merely an instance of the way great mathematicians since the very beginnings of mathematical research have effortlessly maintained their superiority over ordinary mortals.