arithmetic
noun /əˈrɪθmətɪk 
/ [mass noun]
/ [mass noun]1The branch of mathematics dealing with the properties and manipulation of numbers: the laws of arithmetic...
- In principle this included the four mathematical sciences: arithmetic, geometry, astronomy and music.
- Cardinal Algebras presents a study of algebras satisfying certain properties which capture the arithmetic of cardinal numbers.
- The mathematical part of the Aryabhatiya covers arithmetic, algebra, plane trigonometry and spherical trigonometry.
1.1The use of numbers in counting and calculation: arithmetic had never been her strong point...
- If U is a positive integer, we can calculate the function's value by simple arithmetic: Just multiply e by itself U times.
- No matter how poor my calculating skills are however, I do know some simple arithmetic.
- The Stand and Deliver message, that the touch of a master could bring unmotivated students from arithmetic to calculus in a single year, was preached in schools throughout the nation.
adjective /ˌarɪθˈmɛtɪk / [attributive]
/ [attributive]Relating to arithmetic: arithmetic calculations...
- Thus, this conjecture of Artin was the origin of a wide range of activities in what is now called arithmetic geometry.
- Among the series al-Umawi considers are arithmetic and geometric series.
- We do not get to geometrical or arithmetic objects via any process.
Derivatives
arithmetical
/ adjective ...- In this Thabit deals with arithmetical operations applied to ratios of geometrical quantities.
- The necessary background mathematical tools are then introduced such as the arithmetical operations on sexagesimal fractions and the trigonometric functions.
- Babylonian mathematics went far beyond arithmetical calculations.
arithmetically
/ adverb ...- A hound whose speed increases arithmetically chases a hare whose speed also increases arithmetically, how far do they travel before the hound catches the hare?
- The problem comes when you try to think algebraically, or arithmetically, about the Gauss problem.
- But the resources necessary to sustain that increase could be multiplied only arithmetically, adding only a fixed amount every year.
arithmetician
/ noun ...- … it is a small treatise of seventeen folios in which we find nothing on mensuration that the arithmeticians of the East did not know.
- Perhaps it is best described by al-Samawal, who described it as: -… operating on unknowns using all the arithmetical tools, in the same way as the arithmetician operates on the known.
- The arithmeticians among you will have worked out that this was as the Depression hit.
Origin
Middle English: from Old French arismetique, based on Latin arithmetica, from Greek arithmētikē (tekhnē) '(art) of counting', from arithmos 'number'.
Rhymes
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