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noun
An abstract representational system studying numbers, shapes, structures, quantitative change and relationships between them.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
A person's ability to count, calculate, and use different systems of mathematics at differing levels.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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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: math, maths
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Broader terms: science, scientific discipline
Narrower terms: pure mathematics, applied mathematics, applied math
History
1580s; From mathematic (noun) + -ics, from Middle English mathematique, methametik, matematik, matamatik, from Old French mathematique, from Latin mathēmatica (“mathematics”), from Ancient Greek μαθηματικός (mathēmatikós, “on the matter of that which is learned”), from μάθημα (máthēma, “knowledge, study, learning”). Displaced native Old English rīmcræft.
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