Pronunciation: di- ' mo ̇ i-v ə rz-, - ' mwäv(-r ə )z-
Function: noun
Etymology: Abraham De Moivre † 1754 French mathematician
Date: 1840
: a theorem of complex numbers: the n th power of a complex number has for its absolute value and its argument respectively the n th power of the absolute value and n times the argument of the complex number