Euclid, Euclides, or Eucleides generally refers to the ancient Greek mathematician
Euclid of Alexandria (3rd century BC), who wrote a work on geometry called the ''Elements''.
It may also refer to:
People
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Euclid of Megara (c. 435 BC–c. 365 BC), ancient Greek philosopher
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Eucleides, archon of Athens (5th century BC)
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Euclid Bertrand (born 1974), Dominican former footballer
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Euclides da Cunha (1866–1909), Brazilian sociologist
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Euclid Kyurdzidis
Euclid Kiriakovich Kyurdzidis (russian: Эвклид Кириакович Кюрдзидис), Euclid Gurdjiev ( Gr. Ευκλείδης Κιουρτζίδης του Κυριάκου, born 22 February 1968 in Yessentuki) is a Russian actor, best ...
(born 1968), Russian actor
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Euclid Tsakalotos (born 1960), Greek economist and Minister of Finance
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Nicholas Euclid
Nicholas "Nick" Euclid OAM (15 March 1932 – 27 September 2007) was Chairman of Queensland Rugby League Referees' Association and founding Chairman of the Australian Rugby League Referees' Association. He was a rugby team manager and a drummer. ...
(1932–2007), Australian rugby league player, coach, and official
Mathematics, science, and technology
* Euclid Contest, a maths competition held by the
Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing
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Euclid (programming language)
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Euclid (computer program) Euclid is a CAD software which has been developed since 1970. Initially written by Jean Marc Brun and Michel Théron at Laboratoire d'informatique pour la mécanique et les sciences de l'ingénieur (LIMSI) for modelling fluid flow, they founded the ...
* Euclid, a computer system used by
Euroclear
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Euclid (spacecraft), a space telescope built by ESA, to be launched in Feb 2023
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Euclidean space
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4354 Euclides
4354 Euclides , provisional designation , is a dark Dorian asteroid from the central regions of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter. It was discovered on 24 September 1960, by Dutch astronomer couple Ingrid and Cornelis van Houten on pho ...
Higher education
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EUCLID (university)
EUCLID, also called ''Pôle Universitaire Euclide'' or Euclid University, is an international intergovernmental organization with a university charter established in 2008. It has official headquarters in The Gambia and in the Central African Repu ...
, an intergovernmental organization
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Euclid Consortium, a group of universities
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Project Euclid, a university collaboration to assist publishing in math and statistics
Places in the United States
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Euclid, Minnesota
Euclid is an unincorporated community in Polk County, Minnesota, United States. It is situated on U.S. Route 75, north of Crookston. Euclid has a post office with ZIP code 56722.
History
A post office called Euclid has been in operation since ...
, an unincorporated community
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Euclid Township, Polk County, Minnesota
Euclid Township is a township in Polk County, Minnesota, United States. It is part of the Grand Forks- ND- MN Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 149 at the 2000 census.
Euclid Township was organized in 1879, and named after Euc ...
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Euclid, Ohio, a city and suburb of Cleveland
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Euclid Township, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, in existence from 1809 to 1917
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Euclid, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community
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Euclid, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
Fiction
* Euclid, a supercomputer built by the fictional character Maximillian Cohen in the 1998 film ''
Pi''
* Euclid, a town in the game ''
Tales of Phantasia''
* Euclid, an object classification in the
SCP Foundation
The SCP Foundation is a fictional secret organization documented by the collaborative-writing wiki project of the same name. Within the website's shared universe, the Foundation is responsible for capturing, containing, and studying various p ...
storytelling project
Other uses
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Euclid Avenue (disambiguation), several streets in the United States, as well as transit stations and a school
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Euclid Apartments, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C.
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Euclid Tree, a giant Sequoia in California
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Euclid Trucks, a company specialized in heavy equipment for earthmoving
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Village of Euclid, Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co.'', a U.S. Supreme Court case relevant to contemporary land use and police power issues; the legal precedent for zoning
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