Nasik
(ˈnɑːsɪk)
[See def.]
The name of a town in the presidency of Bombay (where the inventor, A. H. Frost, resided), used attrib. to designate certain elaborate ‘magic’ squares and cubes. Hence ˈNasikal, ˈNasical a.; -ally adv.
| 1866 P. Frost in Q. Jrnl. Math. VII. 94 To distinguish the squares..from the ordinary magic squares, I shall call them Nasik Squares, and his cubes Nasik Cubes. Ibid. 98 The squares about the same diagonals may be turned through any number of right angles..without destroying the Nasikal properties. |