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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to Pierre Simon de Laplace, a great French astronomer and mathematician (1749–1827).
  • noun A Laplace's coefficient; a form Pm (cos γ), where γ stands for the angle between r and the radius vector r 1 of some fixed point.

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  • noun Alternative capitalization of Laplacian

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