mathematics
/mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/ noun
Also a form of maths
Forms mathematicks
- noun An abstract representational system studying numbers, shapes, structures, quantitative change and relationships between them.
- noun A person's ability to count, calculate, and use different systems of mathematics at differing levels. “My mathematics is always improving.”
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Etymology
First use appears c. 1545. From mathematic (noun) + -ics, from Middle English mathematique, methametik, matematik, matamatik, from Old French mathematique, from Latin mathēmatica (“mathematics”), from Ancient Greek μαθηματικός (mathēmatikós, “on the matter of that which is learned”), from μάθημα (máthēma, “knowledge, study, learning”). Displaced native Old English rīmcræft.
Webster’s 1913
- noun That science, or class of sciences, which treats of the exact relations existing between quantities or magnitudes, and of the methods by which, in accordance with these relations, quantities sought are deducible from other quantities known or supposed; the science of spatial and quantitative relations.
Etymology [F. mathématiques, pl., L. mathematica, sing., Gr. Mathematic, and -ics.]
Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “mathematics”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details