To mark with an asterisk. Usage Note: The phonological phenomenon of metathesis involves the transposition of sounds or syllables in a word. Metathesis is responsible for the common rendering of ask as aks or ax. (This issue is discussed comprehensively at ax.) Similarly, one sometimes hears asterisk pronounced with the sk transposed to produce a (ks) sound, as though the word were spelled asterix or astericks.
Given an Euler brick with edges (a, b, c), the triple (bc, ac, ab) constitutes an Euler brick as well. Perfect cuboid Template:Unsolved A perfect cuboid (also called a perfect box) is an Euler brick whose body diagonal is also an integer.
Brickwork: Historic Development,Decay, Conservation and Repair. Gerard Lynch. Previously considered to be an inferior material to stone, brick construction was rarely used in Britain until the close of the Middle Ages. Gerard Lynch looks at its historical development over the last 600 years and its conservation and repair.