Fourier

Borrowed from French Fourier.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfʊriˌeɪ/, /ˈfʊriˌər/

Fourier

1. A surname from French.
   • 2009 April 16, Jon Mooallem, “The End Is Near! (Yay!)”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Millard’s sketch happened to look a lot like the master plan of Fourierism, one of the most popular secular utopian movements in American history. In the early 1800s, Charles Fourier, a Frenchman, proposed, in a series of jargon-filled writings, a self-sufficient community model called a “phalanx.”

   • 2016, N B Chakrabarti, “A Note on a Sum of Lognormals”, in arXiv‎^[2]:

     The problem of inversion of the mgf/chf of a sum of lognormals to obtain the CDF/pdf is considered with special reference to methods related to Post Widder technique, Gaussian quadrature and the Fourier series method.

• French mathematician Joseph Fourier.
• French utopian socialist and philosopher Charles Fourier.

• IPA^(key): /fu.ʁje/

Fourier ?

1. a surname

• transformation de Fourier

• French mathematician Joseph Fourier
• French utopian socialist and philosopher Charles Fourier

Borrowed from French fourrier, derived from Old French fuerre (“hay; fodder”), from Frankish *fodar, from Proto-Germanic *fōdrą (“fodder”), whence Futter. Doublet of Furier.

• IPA^(key): /fuˈʁiːɐ̯/

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Fourier m (strong, genitive Fouriers, plural Fouriere)

1. (Austria, Switzerland, military) quartermaster
2. (Switzerland) quartermaster sergeant (class of rank)

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