Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Mathematics.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A mowing, or what is gathered from mowing.
- n. An abbreviation of mathematics and mathematical.
- n. An abbreviation of mathematician.
Wiktionary
- n. A mowing; what is gathered from mowing.
- n. uncountable Short for mathematics.
- n. uncountable Arithmetic calculations; (see do the math).
- n. countable A math course.
- n. Hinduism, Jainism Short for matha.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete A mowing, or that which is gathered by mowing; -- chiefly used in composition.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement
Etymologies
- Contraction of matha. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The only way to be strong in math is to put the time in.”
Steven Levitt, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“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.””
“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.”
“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
“Very little math is happening in math classes today, but then the WASL requires very little basic math.”
“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.”
“If getting higher scores in math is 'smart' then maybe South Indians would trump North Indians.”
“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
“She "calulated," her math is as bad as her english.”
“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.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘math’.
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Americanism
American words
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SCIE - mathematics
The most frequent words in the titles of mathematical books and journals (www.sciencedirect.com)
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Headlines & Newsmakers
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webdev
random webdev lingo used primarily in computer programming.
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Words of Anathem
Orth, Fluccish, and English words that play a role in Neal Stephenson's Anathem.
praxis, avout, anathem, extramuros, intramuros, saunt, concent, bulshytt, requiem, to go hundred, arbre, mathic and 84 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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Fun with Apocopes
Words created by removing the end of a longer or original word. See also Fun with Aphesis.
abs, ad, bio, veg, veggie, tux, auto, bike, carbs, pecs, bro, sis and 186 more...
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Words I like
This is a list of my favourite words (phrases) in english, as a second language. I love them mostly because of how they sound and their meaning.
ninja, cookie, skill, zip, plentiful, digg, debris, pancake, cucumber, fetch, pot, backpack and 461 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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Theme Prompts
There's a fiction meme (mostly on Livejournal) where writers use words as a prompt for a short story snippet. I've been collecting the words that show up on these lists as prompts for creative writ...
white, black, gray, red, orange, yellow, green, indigo, violet, queen, king, prince and 407 more...
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Permutations
There are 17576 different sequences of three letters (26 x 26 x 26). How many of them occur in words? General rules of engagement: mononyms only, lower case preferred to upper case, short preferred...
aaargh, niqaabi, Isaac, raad, baaed, haaf, laager, aah, kamaaina, Naajaat, aak, aalii and 637 more...
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Words I HATE!! >:O
These are just all around words that I despise. I don't know why I just hate them with all my heart and soul.
popular, legit, represent, learn, math, intercept, ugly, audacious
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JDCAce's Interests
Words that describe my interests.
astronomy, skepticism, physics, math, computer, movie, video game, naturalism, atheism, television, puzzle
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tutak.com's Words
jesus, parent, student, math, los angeles, mac, books, antidisestablishm..., prolix, tendentious, gaoler, actantial and 1 more...
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all things scientific
Science words
hydrolysis, logarithm, exponential, integral, parabola, math, hypertonic, kirchoff, resistivity, alternating, photoelectric, electricity and 1 more...
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Thths
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oath, both, auth, goth, ruth, moth, sith, heth, bath, cuth, loth, path and 70 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for math.
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