arithmetic
noun
the method or process of computation with figures: the most elementary branch of mathematics.
arithmetics
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pluralof arithmetic.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The arithmetics of distance and time were not cheering either.
From Time Magazine Archive
There the interruption of commerce with the North compelled a resort to home production in school-book literature, and intensity of feeling upon sectional questions found frequent expression in spelling-books and arithmetics.
From Noah Webster American Men of Letters by Horace E. Scudder
But these are innocent adaptations; one must look to the arithmetics for sectional feeling.
From Noah Webster American Men of Letters by Horace E. Scudder
He published several arithmetics, dedicating them to his patron, Colbert.
From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by David Eugene Smith
Smith, of Boston, was in our department the efficient agent, we were amply supplied with various kinds of books and utensils, embracing primers, arithmetics, slates and pencils, besides a liberal allowance of reading matter.
From Reminiscences of two years with the colored troops Personal Narratives of events in the War of the Rebellion, being papers read before the Rhode Island Soldiers and Sailors Historical Society. No. 7, Second Series by Joshua M. (Joshua Melancthon) Addeman
