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noun

the advanced portions of mathematics, customarily considered as embracing all beyond ordinary arithmetic, geometry, algebra, and trigonometry.

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How to use higher mathematics in a sentence

Models in Israel will have to maintain a BMI of 18.5 or higher if they want to stay employed.
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Disordered eating is also linked to higher rates of depression and anxiety, both in the present and in the future.
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Together, the teams are working 24 hours a day for a product that promises much higher risk than it does profit.
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Higher courts, including the Supreme Court had refused to intercede, and the stay was to expire tonight.
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But with the pipeline, transportation costs drop and production would be higher.
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I claim that it contains many errors of fact, and the Higher Criticism supports the claim; as we shall see.
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Day by day these fretting anxieties and perplexities wasted her strength, and her fever grew higher and higher.
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If now we turn to the higher aspects of form, such as symmetry and proportion, we encounter a difficulty.
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Cincinnatus will not back to his plow, or, at the best, stands sullenly between his plow-handles arguing for a higher wage.
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I then found myself hoisted up by degrees, at least three feet higher than I was before.
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British Dictionary definitions for higher mathematics

higher mathematics

noun

(functioning as singular) abstract mathematics, including number theory and topology, that is more advanced than basic arithmetic, algebra, geometry, and trigonometry

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