Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Mathematics.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mowing, or what is gathered from mowing.
- noun An abbreviation of
mathematics and mathematical. - noun An abbreviation of mathematician.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A mowing, or that which is gathered by mowing; -- chiefly used in composition.
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- noun A
mowing ; what is gathered from mowing. - noun uncountable Short for
mathematics . - noun uncountable
Arithmetic calculations ; (seedo the math ). - noun countable A math course.
- noun Hinduism, Jainism Short for matha.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement
Etymologies
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Examples
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The total PhD number for blacks in math is often in the single digits nationwide.
The Volokh Conspiracy » A Department That Doesn’t Look Like America 2010
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Colloquially we say “four hundred and sixty-three,” for example, but the convention in math is that “and” stands for a decimal: 463 is “four hundred sixty-three”, 4.63 is “four AND sixty-three hundreths.”
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He holds a bachelor's degree in math from the University of Delhi and an MBA in marketing and finance from the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad.
CitiMortgage CEO Sanjiv Das helps people keep their homes 2009
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The only way to be strong in math is to put the time in.
Steven Levitt, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Very little math is happening in math classes today, but then the WASL requires very little basic math.
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A survey of middle-school girls reveals that their self-confidence in math suffers when their parents believe the gender stereotype that holds that math is a male domain and when the parents give unsolicited help with homework.
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If getting higher scores in math is 'smart' then maybe South Indians would trump North Indians.
Why are South Indians so smart? Steve Sailer 2002
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I should not admit that Luke is following an unjustifiable archaism in using the term mathētai so frequently in Acts. [690] Is not a restriction of the idea voiced as early as Matt.x. 42 (hos an potisē hena tōn mikrōn toutōn potērion psuchroō monon eis onoma mathētou)?
The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908
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She "calulated," her math is as bad as her english.
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If my math is accurate, they receive an average of six stories per day, which means five out of six hit the cutting room floor.
mary.marcotte commented on the word math
math v. to solve a problem using mathematics. The only way I can math these numbers is by using a calculator.
June 2, 2016
alexz commented on the word math
applied logic
October 20, 2017