Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- According to the rules, principles, or method of arithmetic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Conformably to the principles or methods of arithmetic.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In an
arithmetic manner;respecting arithmetic.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb with respect to arithmetic
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Examples
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And bringing down the deficit by spending cuts alone, particularly cuts in annually appropriated domestic spending, is, well, arithmetically challenging.
Math Test Ahead for GOP on Promised Spending Cuts David Wessel 2010
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That's a remarkable eight out of 10 games finishing all square 80% for the arithmetically challenged.
The most drawtastic day in football history | The Knowledge 2011
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Getting from there to anywhere close to here by "worker activism, new laws and court decisions" seems arithmetically impossible, even if somehow 100% of the entire economic output of the nation had been directed to work compensation and improving workplace conditions. ivan: Yes, a weaker claim would have been less the perfect self-caricature that so tickled our host.
Real Caricature, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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He treated us around from behind the bar, and I decided that he had arithmetically evened things up handsomely.
Chapter 9 2010
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Is it arithmetically possible to be relegated on 64 points or more?
King Olav, Crystal Palace, Erik Thorstvedt and the eviction of Cromer | The Knowledge 2011
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Getting from there to anywhere close to here by "worker activism, new laws and court decisions" seems arithmetically impossible, even if somehow 100% of the entire economic output of the nation had been directed to work compensation and improving workplace conditions. ivan: Yes, a weaker claim would have been less the perfect self-caricature that so tickled our host.
Real Caricature, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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To begin with, I owe so much in back taxes that it is very nearly impossible arithmetically to even the score by writing, and I have acquired other personal, moral, and financial responsibilities.
January « 2010 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2010
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What I was suggesting was that the ratio of government spending to real GDP would be reduced arithmetically by an increase in the denominator.
The Deficit Argument, III, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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To begin with, I owe so much in back taxes that it is very nearly impossible arithmetically to even the score by writing, and I have acquired other personal, moral, and financial responsibilities.
william saroyan | part II « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2010
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(Winning control is probably arithmetically impossible.)
Stromata Blog: 2009
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