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Meaning of Arithmetic | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
əˈɹɪθmətɪk

Definitions

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

Equivalents

བོད་སྐད ཨང་རྩིས
Català aritmètica
فارسی حساب
ગુજરાતી અંકગણિત
Bahasa Indonesia aritmetika ilmu hitung
한국어 산술
Lietuvių aritmetika
മലയാളം അങ്കഗണിതം
मराठी अंकगणित
Shqip aritmetikë
తెలుగు అంకగణితం
Тоҷикӣ ҳисоб
Türkçe aritmetik hesap
اردو حساب
Tiếng Việt số học
IsiXhosa izibalo

Examples

“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.”
“[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.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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