Kindi is an English word starting with the letter K. With 6 example sentences you'll see exactly how it works in context.
Context around Kindi
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 2 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Kindi
- In this selection, "kindi" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, opsal stand out and add context to how "kindi" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include by al kindi and arnald and followed al kindi and broke. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "kindi" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with kindi
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Kindi Opsal won the Jr. Lighting outing. (7 words)
Arab mathematician Al-Kindi was employed by Al-Mu'tasim and tutored the Caliph's son. (16 words)
David C. Lindberg, Theories of Vision from al-Kindi to Kepler, (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Pr., 1976), pp. 140-2. (20 words)
Alhazen's intromission theory followed al-Kindi (and broke with Aristotle) in asserting that "from each point of every colored body, illuminated by any light, issue light and color along every straight line that can be drawn from that point". (40 words)
One of the earliest of these was Al-Kindi (c. 801–73) who wrote on the merits of Aristotelian and Euclidean ideas of optics, favouring the emission theory since it could better quantify optical phenomenon. (35 words)
Bradwardine's analysis is an example of transferring a mathematical technique used by al-Kindi and Arnald of Villanova to quantify the nature of compound medicines to a different physical problem. (31 words)
Example sentences (6)
Kindi Opsal won the Jr. Lighting outing.
Alhazen's intromission theory followed al-Kindi (and broke with Aristotle) in asserting that "from each point of every colored body, illuminated by any light, issue light and color along every straight line that can be drawn from that point".
Arab mathematician Al-Kindi was employed by Al-Mu'tasim and tutored the Caliph's son.
Bradwardine's analysis is an example of transferring a mathematical technique used by al-Kindi and Arnald of Villanova to quantify the nature of compound medicines to a different physical problem.
David C. Lindberg, Theories of Vision from al-Kindi to Kepler, (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Pr., 1976), pp. 140-2.
One of the earliest of these was Al-Kindi (c. 801–73) who wrote on the merits of Aristotelian and Euclidean ideas of optics, favouring the emission theory since it could better quantify optical phenomenon.