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mathematics
[ math-uh-mat-iks ]
noun
- (used with a singular verb) the systematic treatment of magnitude, relationships between figures and forms, and relations between quantities expressed symbolically.
- (used with a singular or plural verb) mathematical procedures, operations, or properties.
mathematics
/ ˌmæθəˈmætɪks; ˌmæθˈmæt- /
noun
- functioning as singular a group of related sciences, including algebra, geometry, and calculus, concerned with the study of number, quantity, shape, and space and their interrelationships by using a specialized notation
- functioning as singular or plural mathematical operations and processes involved in the solution of a problem or study of some scientific field
mathematics
/ măth′ə-măt′ĭks /
- The study of the measurement, relationships, and properties of quantities and sets, using numbers and symbols. Arithmetic, algebra, geometry, and calculus are branches of mathematics.
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Example Sentences
The two scientific stories resort to the equivalent of Mathematics for Dummies andPhysics for Dummies.
“I think Sex Ed is equally, if not more, important than mathematics or English,” says Reign.
Muslims made many discoveries in mathematics, chemistry, physics, medicine, astronomy and psychology.
And you can find it in any college in the country: the mathematics of monsters.
One old soldier is on the path to a doctorate in mathematics and another is a trained underwater welder.
Samuel Clarke, a famous English divine, died; celebrated also for his writings on mathematics, &c.
On the other hand, mathematics alone seem to have offered any serious difficulty to him.
Again, mathematics frequently deal with purely ideal figures, which never did or never can exist.
Besides music, Albrecht took great interest in natural science and mathematics.
In Athens, rhetoric, mathematics, and natural history supplanted rhapsodies and speculations on God and Providence.
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