Associations to the word «Napier»

Wiktionary

NAPIER, proper noun. A Scottish occupational surname​ for someone who sold table linen, or was in charge of the linen of a great house.
NAPIER, proper noun. John Napier, Scottish mathematician etc
NAPIER, proper noun. A male given name transferred from the surname.
NAPIER, proper noun. A city in New Zealand.
NAPIER, proper noun. A village in Western Cape, South Africa.
NAPIER, proper noun. An unincorporated community in West Virginia.
NAPIER GRASS, noun. Pennisetum purpureum, a perennial tropical grass native to Africa.
NAPIER GRASSES, noun. Plural of Napier grass

Dictionary definition

NAPIER, noun. Scottish mathematician who invented logarithms; introduced the use of the decimal point in writing numbers (1550-1617).

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne