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Figure 8 (other)
Figure 8, figure of 8, figure eight, or Figure of Eight may refer to: * 8 (number), in Arabic numerals Geography * Figure Eight Island, North Carolina, United States * Figure Eight Lake, Alberta, Canada * Figure-Eight Loops, feature of the Historic Columbia River Highway in Guy W. Talbot State Park * Figure of Eight Island, New Zealand, an island in the Auckland Islands group Mathematics and sciences * ∞, symbol meaning infinity * Figure 8, a two-lobed Lissajous curve * Figure 8, in topology, the rose (topology), rose with two petals * Figure 8, shape described by an analemma, a curve in astronomy * Figure-eight knot (mathematics), in knot theory * Lemniscate, various types of mathematical curve that resembles a figure 8 Music Albums and EPs * Figure 8 (album), ''Figure 8'' (album), a 2000 album by Elliott Smith * ''Figure Eight EP'', a 2008 EP by This Et Al Songs * Figure 8 (song), "Figure 8" (song), a 2012 song by Ellie Goulding from ''Halcyon'' * "Figure 8", a song b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
8 (number)
8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9. Etymology English ''eight'', from Old English '', æhta'', Proto-Germanic ''*ahto'' is a direct continuation of Proto-Indo-European '' *oḱtṓ(w)-'', and as such cognate with Greek and Latin , both of which stems are reflected by the English prefix oct(o)-, as in the ordinal adjective ''octaval'' or ''octavary'', the distributive adjective is '' octonary''. The adjective ''octuple'' (Latin ) may also be used as a noun, meaning "a set of eight items"; the diminutive '' octuplet'' is mostly used to refer to eight siblings delivered in one birth. The Semitic numeral is based on a root ''*θmn-'', whence Akkadian ''smn-'', Arabic ''ṯmn-'', Hebrew ''šmn-'' etc. The Chinese numeral, written ( Mandarin: ''bā''; Cantonese: ''baat''), is from Old Chinese ''*priāt-'', ultimately from Sino-Tibetan ''b-r-gyat'' or ''b-g-ryat'' which also yielded Tibetan '' brgyat''. It has been argued that, as the cardinal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
