arithmetic

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Etymology 1

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    From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#ARITHMETICCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#ARITHMETIC arsmetike, from Old FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Old French#ARITHMETIC arismetique, from LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#ARITHMETIC arithmētica, from Ancient GreekCategory:English terms derived from Ancient Greek#ARITHMETIC ἀριθμητική (τέχνη) (arithmētikḗ (tékhnē), (art of) counting), feminine of ἀριθμητικός (arithmētikós, arithmetical), from ἀριθμός (arithmós, number, counting), from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#ARITHMETIC *h₂ri-dʰh₁-mó-s, form of *h₂rey- (to count, reason). Used in English since 13th century.

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    arithmetic (usually uncountable, plural arithmetics)Category:English lemmas#ARITHMETICCategory:English nouns#ARITHMETICCategory:English uncountable nouns#ARITHMETICCategory:English countable nouns#ARITHMETICCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ARITHMETICCategory:Pages with entries#ARITHMETICCategory:Pages with 1 entry#ARITHMETIC

    1. The mathematics of numbers (integers, rational numbers, real numbers, or complex numbers) under the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
      • 1992, Douglas M. Priest, On Properties of Floating Point Arithmetics, University of California, Berkeley, page 17:
        Note that all correctly rounding arithmetics satisfy property A1, as do those with properly truncating addition. All faithful binary arithmetics and all arithmetics with either properly truncating or correctly chopping addition satisfy property A2.
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      • 2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845, archived from the original on 8 March 2023:
        [The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. [] Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, and that in several cases these bacteria were dividing and thus, by the perverse arithmetic of biological terminology, multiplying.
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    2. (datedCategory:English dated terms#ARITHMETIC) Number theory.
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    arithmetic (not comparable)Category:English lemmas#ARITHMETICCategory:English adjectives#ARITHMETICCategory:English uncomparable adjectives#ARITHMETICCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ARITHMETICCategory:Pages with entries#ARITHMETICCategory:Pages with 1 entry#ARITHMETIC

    1. Increasing or decreasing by an arithmetic progression.
      Coordinate terms: geometric, exponential; parabolic
      Near-synonym: linear
      Growth in the most mature markets is likely to be arithmetic; on what rational basis could one hope for exponential growth there?Category:English terms with usage examples#ARITHMETIC

    Etymology 2

      Category:English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂er-#ARITHMETICCategory:English terms derived from Ancient Greek#ARITHMETICCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#ARITHMETICCategory:English terms derived from French#ARITHMETICCategory:English terms borrowed from French#ARITHMETICCategory:English terms derived from Latin#ARITHMETICCategory:English entries referencing etymons with mismatched IDs#ARITHMETIC

      From FrenchCategory:English terms borrowed from French#ARITHMETICCategory:English terms derived from French#ARITHMETIC arithmétique,[1] from LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#ARITHMETIC arithmēticus, from Ancient GreekCategory:English terms derived from Ancient Greek#ARITHMETIC ἀριθμητῐκός (arithmētĭkós).

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      arithmetic (not comparable)Category:English lemmas#ARITHMETICCategory:English adjectives#ARITHMETICCategory:English uncomparable adjectives#ARITHMETICCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ARITHMETICCategory:Pages with entries#ARITHMETICCategory:Pages with 1 entry#ARITHMETIC

      1. (mathematicsCategory:en:Mathematics#ARITHMETIC) Of, relating to, or using arithmetic; arithmetical.
        • 2008, Emmanuel Kowalski, The large sieve and its applications: arithmetic geometry, random ..., page 189:
          Moreover, the latest work of Katz, involving the so-called 'Larsen alternative', provides new criteria, of a very arithmetic nature, to (almost) determine the rational monodromy group
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      2. (arithmeticCategory:en:Arithmetic#ARITHMETIC) Of a progression, mean, etc, computed solely using addition.
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      1. arithmetic, adj.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000, archived from the original on 30 September 2023.
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