Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The Arabic system of numeration; the decimal system.
- noun Computation with Arabic figures.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In arithmetic, the Arabic system of notation; hence, the art of computation with the Arabic figures, now commonly called
arithmetic . - noun Any peculiar method of computing, as the rule for finding the greatest common measure.
- noun Any method of notation: as, the differential algorism.
- noun Also written
algorithm .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The art of calculating by nine figures and zero; computation with Arabic figures.
- noun the Arabic system of numeration.
- noun The art of calculating with any species of notation
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Obsolete spelling of
algorithm . - noun Computing in, or using,
Arabic numerals .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the Arabic (or decimal) system of numeration
- noun computation with Arabic figures
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Actually the linked site has a very good entry on both "algorism" and "algorithm".
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This is what the OED has under the etymology of "algorism" slightly modified for easier posting:
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So Pipes, Michelle Malkin, Geller et al should pay attention: The words alcohol, algebra and algorism are all really Arabic.
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Algorisme being popularly reduced in OFr. to augorime, English also shows two forms, the popular augrime, ending in agrim, agrum, and the learned algorism which passed through many pseudo-etymological perversions, including a recent algorithm in which it is learnedly confused with Gr. number.'
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Nevertheless, to understand the game aright, they feared neither the cormorant nor mallard of Savoy, which put the good people of my country in great hope that their children some time should become very skilful in algorism.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Nevertheless, to understand the game aright, they feared neither the cormorant nor mallard of Savoy, which put the good people of my country in great hope that their children some time should become very skilful in algorism.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Hindu-Arabic numerals: "Over the whiche degrees ther ben noumbres of augrim, that devyden thilke same degrees fro fyve to fyve," and "... the nombres ... ben writen in augrim," meaning in the way of the algorism.
The Hindu-Arabic Numerals David Eugene Smith 1902
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Gernardus, [505] the {126} author of a work on algorism.
The Hindu-Arabic Numerals David Eugene Smith 1902
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In arithmetic he was influential in spreading the ideas of algorism.
The Hindu-Arabic Numerals David Eugene Smith 1902
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Hec algorism {us} ars p {re} sens dicit {ur}; in qua
The Earliest Arithmetics in English Anonymous 1902
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