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(attributive, follows a numeral, chiefly Canada, US) Number.
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(mathematics, humorous) Details which involve diagram chasing.
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A number used without application to things, e.g. 6, 8, 10; but when applied to anything, e.g. 6 feet, 10 men, it becomes concrete.
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(mathematics) The use of a mathematical notation in a way that is not formally correct but seems likely to simplify the exposition or suggest the correct intuition.
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(applied mathematics, insurance, finance) The discipline within applied mathematics dealing with risk assessment and the modelling of uncertainty; the rigorous application of mathematical and statistical methods to assess risk, in industries including insurance and finance.
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(logic, mathematics, computer science) The number of arguments or operands a function or operation takes. For a relation, the number of domains in the corresponding Cartesian product.
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(mathematics) Of, relating to, or using arithmetic; arithmetical.
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(statistics) The arithmetic mean.
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(statistics, probability) The measure of central tendency of a set of values computed by dividing the sum of the values by their number; commonly called the mean or the average.
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(set theory) One of the axioms in axiomatic set theory, equivalent to the statement that every non-empty set contains a member that is disjoint from that set.
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The basis in mathematical induction, showing that a statement holds when n is equal to the lowest value that n is given in the question (usually 0 or 1).
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(logic) Concerning logic whose subject matter concerns binary states.
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(grammar) A type of plural-only noun denoting an object which consists of two parts joined together, e.g., scissors, pants, eyeglasses.
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Of or pertaining to the work of George Boole.
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Of, pertaining to, or involving calculation.
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Describing a "natural" number used to indicate quantity (e.g., zero, one, two, three), as opposed to an ordinal number indicating relative position.
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(grammar) A word that expresses a countable quantity; a cardinal numeral.
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(type theory) The number of terms that can inhabit a type; the possible values of a type.
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(economics) to transform an ordinal measure (where distance between points doesn't matter, just the ordering) into a cardinal one (where distance matters).
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(statistics) A nominal variable.
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A number, value or item that serves as a measure of some property or characteristic.
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(mathematics) For each coefficient; with respect to coefficients.
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A number used in application to a thing. E.g. "11" is abstract but "11 men" is concrete.
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(grammar) A word that answers "how many times each?" or "how many at a time?"
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(mathematics, formal languages) The set of Dyck words; a balanced string of square brackets.
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(mathematics) The act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation; especially, in the operation of deducing from several equations containing several unknown quantities a less number of equations containing a less number of unknown quantities.
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In terms of, or by means, of enumeration.
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The study of error in mathematical approximations.
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(mathematics, set theory) The principle, codified in the axiom of extensionality, that sets are equal if and only if they contain the same elements.
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(mathematics) Any of various objects multiplied together to form some whole.
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Arithmetic; mathematics done with figures.
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(grammar) A word that expresses one or more of a specific number of parts of a whole.
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in education, a derogatory term for reform mathematics
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(computing theory) Alternative spelling of inorder [(computing theory) Of a tree traversal, recursively visiting the root in between the left and right subtrees.]
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(mathematics) Notation where operators appear between operands, for example a+b
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Alternative form of item set [(computer science, parsers) A set of production rules which have an identical sequence of symbols between the right arrow (→) and the dot (•).]
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(mathematics) Proceeding through the use or assumption of a series of mathematical propositions.
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(obsolete) A minor addition to a text.
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(countable, Canada, US, Philippines) A math course / class
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Incomprehensible talk about mathematical equations.
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(archaic) mathematical
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(Australia, Queensland) The second-most, and second-least, advanced of the three OP-eligible mathematics subjects available to Queensland students in years 11 and 12.
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(now rare) Mental calculation or discipline; science, especially mathematical learning.
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(informal) The terminology of mathematics
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(Canada, US) In terms of mathematics.
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(mathematics) A negative quantity.
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(economics) A ratio used to estimate total economic effect for a variety of economic activities.
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(derogatory, by extension) The methodology used to arrive at an unreasonably incorrect answer for a mathematical calculation.
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Abbreviation of number. [(countable) An abstract entity used to describe quantity.]
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A number (usually natural) used like a name; a numeric code or identifier. (See nominal number on Wikipedia.)
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(game theory) Formally, a structure (P, mathbf S, mathbf F) where P = {1,2, ...,m} is a set of players, mathbf S=(S_1,S_2,…,S_m) is an m-tuple of pure strategy sets, one for each player, and mathbf F=(F_1,F_2,…,F_m) is an m-tuple of payoff functions.
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(grammar) A noun that represents a number
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Abbreviation of number. [(countable) An abstract entity used to describe quantity.]
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(countable) A performance; especially, a single song or song and dance routine within a larger show.
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(mathematics) Relating to number theory
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(rare, nonstandard) Full of numbers.
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The property of being a number.
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Characteristic of a number; numberlike.
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(education) Competence in working with numbers and arithmetic; numeracy.
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(education) mathematical work done with numbers
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(rare, colloquial) Good with numbers; mathematically inclined.
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Of or relating to numbers; numerical.
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Relating to numbers or numbering.
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Having the ability to understand numbers and perform arithmetic.
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Any system of giving names to numbers.
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Of or pertaining to numeration.
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Of or relating to numbers, especially the characters 0 to 9.
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(obsolete) The same in number; hence, identically the same; identical.
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A number used as an adjective; either a cardinal adjective (such as one) or an ordinal adjective (such as third)
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A type of noun in Scottish Gaelic used as a numeral, only applied to persons. They exist for the numbers 1-10 only.
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Relating to numericlature.
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A system of nomenclature based on numbers.
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(obsolete) One who deals in numbers.
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The creation of a one-to-one relationship with the integers
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The name of a numeric amount.
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Of, pertaining to, or based on numerology.
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By means of, or in relation to, numerology
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A hypothetical nonverbal cognitive representation of a numeric amount.
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(statistics) A variable with values whose order is significant, but on which no meaningful arithmetic-like operations can be performed.
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(arithmetic, logic) A notation for arithmetic (and logical) formulae in which operations (respectively, quantifiers and operands) are written immediately before their operands, used to avoid the need for parentheses; for example, 3 * (4 + 7) is written as * 3 + 4 7 and A AND B is written as AND A B.
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(mathematics) Of number, greater than zero.
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(set theory) Cardinality.
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(mathematics) The number of significant digits to which a value may be measured reliably.
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(Australia, mathematics) variable (symbol)
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(mathematics) Something to be reduced according to the rules of a formal system.
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(statistics) Of or pertaining to regression.
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(mathematics) A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result.
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(mathematics) An ordered list of objects, typically indexed with natural numbers.
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(mathematics, often attributive) A total ordering for finite sequences of objects that can themselves be totally ordered. Sequences are primarily sorted by cardinality (length) with the shortest sequences first, and sequences of the same length are sorted into lexicographic order.
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A statement that contains only constants and no variables
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(mathematics) A proof, axiom, problem, or definition whose cases are completely covered by another, broader concept.
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A discipline, principally within applied mathematics, concerned with the systematic study of the collection, presentation, analysis, and interpretation of data.
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(mathematics) A subset of a system of logic
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(mathematics, somewhat derogatory) The practice of solving mathematical problems by manipulating symbols (as in algebra) rather than through visual or intuitive understanding.
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(programming) An operator taking three operands, specifically the operator ?: used in many programming languages to select one of two values depending on a third value.
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(programming) A variable that behaves similar to a Boolean, but allows three values instead of two.
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(mathematics, programming, computer engineering) Of an operation, function, procedure, or logic gate, taking exactly one operand, argument, parameter, or input; having domain of dimension 1.
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(algebra, computing) A symbol representing unary operation; an operator taking one operand.
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(mathematics) The operation of testing the equation of a problem, to see whether it truly expresses the conditions of the problem.
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(mathematics) The symbol ∧, denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction.
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Alternative form of well-ordering [(mathematics) Synonym of well-order]
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A mathematics question that states verbally what is usually expressed with symbols or diagrams.
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