plural of Fermat curve

A traditional food of China, used as a dish itself, or components of other dishes, and a folk remedy; composed of glutinous rice that has been lightly fermented with distillers yeast (酒麴/酒曲), resulting in a slightly alcoholic product. In some regions of China, it is a breakfast food, or desert, or serves as a base for a soup, porridge, pudding; or as an ingredient.

Of or relating to fermentation.

Of or relating to Pierre de Fermat (1607–1665), French mathematician.

The study of fermentation.

The link between ray optics and wave optics, stating (in its original strong form) that the path taken by a ray between two given points is the path that can be travelled in the least time, or (in a weaker form that is true for all cases) in a time that is "stationary" with respect to variations of the path — so that a deviation in the path causes, at most, a second-order change in the traversal time.

The phenomenon that elements beyond fermium cannot be made by neutron bombardment, due to the very short spontaneous fission half-life of fermium-258.

Synonym of Pell's equation

plural of Pell-Fermat equation

(microbiology) Any of a taxonomically heterogeneous group of bacteria of the phylum Pseudomonadota that cannot catabolize glucose, and are thus unable to ferment.