Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • By means of algebra, or of algebraic processes; in an algebraic manner; as regards algebra.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb By algebraic process.

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  • adverb Using algebra.

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  • adverb in an algebraic manner

Etymologies

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algebraic +‎ -ally, alternatively algebraical +‎ -ly.

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Examples

  • And even those foreign correspondents who are tragically wounded or killed most years are an algebraically smaller number than the local journalists murdered for doing their jobs.

    Phil Bronstein: Should Journalists Get Out of the News? Phil Bronstein 2011

  • And even those foreign correspondents who are tragically wounded or killed most years are an algebraically smaller number than the local journalists murdered for doing their jobs.

    Phil Bronstein: Should Journalists Get Out of the News? Phil Bronstein 2011

  • The omission of "degree" indicates that it is not relative to an arbitrary reference point like the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales, but rather an absolute unit of measure which can be manipulated algebraically.

    Are We Just 'Lucky' to See Activity on Enceladus? | Universe Today 2010

  • In this way one can characterize the operations of infinitesimal analysis algebraically but without any of the naïveté which had characterized the previous algebraic approaches.

    Mathematical Style Mancosu, Paolo 2009

  • For at least four reasons, which I will name algebraically.

    enowning enowning 2009

  • Leaving aside the question of how many bikes is appropriate (an easy question to answer algebraically, by the way: when x is the appropriate number and b is the number of bikes you have now, then x = b+1), the question of how many are actually on site here on North Upper is addressed in passing in a front page article in today's Lexington Herald-Leader.

    November 2007 2007

  • Leaving aside the question of how many bikes is appropriate (an easy question to answer algebraically, by the way: when x is the appropriate number and b is the number of bikes you have now, then x = b+1), the question of how many are actually on site here on North Upper is addressed in passing in a front page article in today's Lexington Herald-Leader.

    Newspapers, tired puppies, the smell of rhinos 2007

  • Around 1950 Abraham Robinson was impressed that maps between algebraic structures in general seem hardly ever to be elementary, whereas some important maps (such as embeddings between two algebraically closed fields, or between two real-closed fields) turn out to be elementary.

    First-order Model Theory Hodges, Wilfrid 2009

  • The omission of "degree" indicates that it is not relative to an arbitrary reference point like the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales — both of which should have the adjective prefix "degrees" — but rather an absolute unit of measure which can be manipulated algebraically; e.g., multiplied by two to indicate twice the amount of "mean energy" available among elementary degrees of freedom of the system.

    Cool – Literally – Extrasolar Planet Imaged | Universe Today 2009

  • For at least four reasons, which I will name algebraically.

    Archive 2009-05-01 enowning 2009

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