arithmetic

noun, adj — 5 senses

arithmetic

noun

UK [əˈɹɪθmətɪk] · US [əˈɹɪθmətɪk]

Etymology From Middle English arsmetike, from Old French arismetique, from Latin arithmētica, from Ancient Greek ἀριθμητική (τέχνη) (arithmētikḗ (tékhnē), “(art of) counting”), feminine of ἀριθμητικός (arithmētikós, “arithmetical”), from ἀριθμός (arithmós, “number, counting”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ri-dʰh₁-mó-s, form of *h₂rey- (“to count, reason”). Used in English since 13th century.

1

Usually The mathematics of numbers (integers, rational numbers, real numbers, or complex numbers) under the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

  • 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 A2.1992, Douglas M. Priest, On Properties of Floating Point Arithmetics, University of California, Berkeley, page 17:
  • [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.2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845, archived from the original on 08 Mar 2023:
2

Dated, Usually Number theory.

Derived terms
32 termsaffine arithmetic, alphametic, arbitrary-precision arithmetic, arithmetic bug, arithmetician, arithmeticity, arithmogram, binary arithmetic, Boolean arithmetic, clock arithmetic, congruence arithmetic, decimal arithmetic, floating-point arithmetic, fundamental theorem of arithmetic, fuzzy arithmetic, hard as Chinese arithmetic, higher arithmetic, hyperarithmetic, interval arithmetic, location arithmetic, mental arithmetic, modular arithmetic, moral arithmetic, nonarithmetic, Peano arithmetic, political arithmetic, Presburger arithmetic, Robinson arithmetic, saturation arithmetic, significance arithmetic, universal arithmetic, vulgar arithmetic
Hypernyms
math, maths, mathematics

arithmetic

adj

/ˌɛɹɪθˈmɛtɪk/

Etymology From Middle English arsmetike, from Old French arismetique, from Latin arithmētica, from Ancient Greek ἀριθμητική (τέχνη) (arithmētikḗ (tékhnē), “(art of) counting”), feminine of ἀριθμητικός (arithmētikós, “arithmetical”), from ἀριθμός (arithmós, “number, counting”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ri-dʰh₁-mó-s, form of *h₂rey- (“to count, reason”). Used in English since 13th century.

1

Increasing or decreasing by an arithmetic progression.

  • 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?

arithmetic

adj

US, UK /æɹɪθˈmɛtɪk/

Etymology From French arithmétique, from Latin arithmēticus, from Ancient Greek ἀριθμητῐκός (arithmētĭkós).

1

Mathematics, Sciences Of, relating to, or using arithmetic; arithmetical.

  • arithmetic geometry
  • 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 group2008, Emmanuel Kowalski, The large sieve and its applications: arithmetic geometry, random ..., page 189:
2

Arithmetic Of a progression, mean, etc, computed solely using addition.

  • arithmetic progression
Derived terms
arithmetically, arithmetic average, arithmetic combinatorics, arithmetic density, arithmetic function, arithmetic-geometric mean, arithmetic geometry, arithmetic hierarchy, arithmetic logic unit, arithmetic mean, arithmetic operation, arithmetic operator, arithmetic progression, arithmetic sequence, arithmetic series, arithmetic spiral
Related terms
List of terms used in arithmetic in English
Coordinate terms
geometric

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