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noun
Clipping of mathematics.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, Philippines, US, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal, uncountable
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noun
Arithmetic calculations; (see do the math).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, Philippines, US, informal, uncountable
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noun
A math course or class.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, Philippines, US, countable, informal
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noun
A mowing; what is gathered from mowing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
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noun
Clipping of matha.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Hinduism, Jainism, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
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verb
To perform mathematical calculations or mathematical analysis; to do math
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: colloquial, informal
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verb
To add up, compute; (by extension) to make sense.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
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noun
a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: mathematics, maths
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Broader terms: science, scientific discipline
Narrower terms: pure mathematics, applied mathematics, applied math
History
Clipping of mathematics.
From Middle English math, from Old English mǣþ (“a mowing, that which is mown, cutting of grass”), from Proto-Germanic *mēþą (“a mowing”), from Proto-Indo-European *h2meh1- (“to mow”); equivalent to mow + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Cognate with German Mahd (“a mowing, reaping”), West Frisian mêd (“area of land that can be mown in one day; domain, realm”). Related also to Old English mǣd (“mead, meadow, pasture”). See meadow.
Contraction of matha.
Across languages
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