Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as algebraic.
  • Resembling algebra; relating to algebra.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Pertaining to algebra or its laws.
  • adjective mathematics Requiring a finite number of algebraic operations; the opposite of transcendental.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of or relating to algebra

Etymologies

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algebraic +‎ -al

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Examples

  • The system of general language called algebraical notation does this.

    A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839

  • In the 1830s Charles Babbage got serious about automating the computation and printing of mathematical tables, and started imagining a kind of universal “analytical engine”, which, as Ada Lovelace described it, could “weave algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves”.

    Wolfram Blog : Stephen Wolfram on the Quest for Computable Knowledge 2009

  • She wanted the reader to view this development visually: the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard-loom weaves flowers and leaves.

    Ada, the Enchantress of Numbers, Poetical science 2010

  • She wanted the reader to view this development visually: the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard-loom weaves flowers and leaves.

    Archive 2010-03-01 2010

  • We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.

    Ada Lovelace Ele 2008

  • We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.

    Archive 2008-11-01 Ele 2008

  • The atom has become an algebraical formula; the hard cash has become a financial fiction.

    G.K.'s Weekly - If Matter Matters 2008

  • And many of the notions which form a part of the train of our thoughts are hardly realized by us at the time, but, like numbers or algebraical symbols, are used as signs only, thus lightening the labour of recollection.

    Theaetetus 2007

  • This is where elliptic curves come into play: they induce algebraical groups, some of them suitable for DH and ElGamal crypto systems.

    Phrack Issue #63 (The Lost Circle of Hackers) 2005

  • And if we go on in this way, with everybody, intellectuals, artists, government, industrialists and workers all frantically killing off the last human feeling, the last bit of their intuition, the last healthy instinct; if it goes on in algebraical progression, as it is going on: then ta-tah! to the human species!

    Lady Chatterley's Lover 2004

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