[f. Gr. κύκλος circle + -τομια cutting. In sense 1 rendering Ger. kreistheilung.]
1. Math. The problem of the division of a circle into a given number of equal parts (Sylvester).
1879. Sylvester, in Amer. Jrnl. Math., 380. Bachmann’s work, as it seems to me, gives proof, that Cyclotomy is to be regarded not as an incidental application, but as the natural and inherent centre and core of the arithmetic of the future.
1892. Mathews, Theory of Numbers, I. 184.
2. Ophthalmic Surg. (See quot.)
1889. Berry, Dis. Eye, vii. 222. Division of the ciliary muscle, or cyclotomy.
Hence Cyclotomic a., as in cyclotomic functions.
1879. Sylvester, in Amer. Jrnl. Math., 357. The species of cyclotomic … functions of which the cubic function above written is an example.
