mathematics
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синонім :
math, maths, numeracy
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1. the study of the measurement, properties, and relationships of quantities and sets, using numbers and symbols.
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
1. an abstract representational system used in the study of numbers, shapes, structure and change and the relationships between these concepts.
2. A person's ability to count, calculate, and use different systems of mathematics at differing levels.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
1. 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
1. the science of quantity; the study of ideal constructions (often applicable to real problems), and the discovery thereby of relations between the parts of these constructions, before unknown.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
1. a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement
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