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math

1

[ math ]

math

2

[ math ]

noun

, British Dialect.
  1. a mowing; a leveling or cutting down of grass, grain, etc., with a mowing machine or scythe.
  2. the crop mowed.

math

3

[ muhth ]

noun

  1. a Hindu monastery.

math.

4

abbreviation for

  1. mathematical.
  2. mathematician.
  3. mathematics.

math

1

/ mæθ /

noun

  1. informal.
    short for mathematics Brit equivalentmaths
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math.

2

abbreviation for

  1. mathematics
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of math1

First recorded in 1845–50; by shortening

Origin of math2

First recorded before 900; Middle English (bede)-mad, a kind of manorial duty to mow for one's lord, Old English mǣth “mowing, hay harvest”; cognate with German Mahd, Old Frisian mēth, Old Saxon mād(dag) “mowing (day)”; aftermath, mow 1, mow 2

Origin of math3

First recorded in 1825–35; from Hindi maṭh, from Sanskrit maṭha “hut, cottage, cell, monastery”
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Example Sentences

After the curtain calls, Christopher comes back to explain a complicated math problem.

Supporters pointed to math and literacy gains, while critics noted that those improvements disappeared in elementary school.

Jackson was an exceptional math and science student; the dreaded Bartlett was one of his favorite professors.

And last year, 4th and 8th grade students showed the biggest math and reading gains in the country.

The risk-benefit math becomes less favorable for the older patient.

Aftermath, aft′ėr-math, n. a second mowing of grass in the same season.

Darryl and I once tried to write our own better spam filter and when you filter spam, you need Bayesian math.

Im only an enlisted man and they dont give enlisted men enough math to answer questions like that.

Maybe Miss Graham can find me a book on math problems that a man can do in his head.

She could send several cheeses to table,—new milk cheese, nettle-cheese, floaten milk cheese and eddish or after-math cheese.

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