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arithmetic en · ADJ · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• ərĭth′mətĭk (Received-Pronunciation)
• (General-American) audio
• /ˌɛɹɪθˈmɛtɪk/
• [əˈɹɪθmətɪk] (General-American)
• [əˈɹɪθmətɪk] (Received-Pronunciation)
• (General-American) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *h₂reh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-éyti Proto-Indo-European *h₂rey-der. Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ρῐθμός (ărĭthmós) Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Ancient Greek -έω (-éō) Ancient Greek ἀριθμέω (arithméō) Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Hellenic *-tis Ancient Greek -τῐς (-tĭs) Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) ? Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Hellenic *-tós Ancient Greek -τος (-tos) ▲ Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) ? Ancient Greek -τικός (-tikós) Ancient Greek ἀριθμητῐκός (arithmētĭkós) Ancient Greek ἀριθμητῐκή (arithmētĭkḗ)bor. Latin arithmēticabor. ▲ Ancient Greek ἀριθμητῐκός (arithmētĭkós)bor. Latin arithmēticusbor. Old French arismetiquebor. Middle English arsmetike English arithmetic 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.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Increasing or decreasing by an arithmetic progression.
   • Growth in the most mature markets is likely to be arithmetic; on what rational basis could one hope for exponential growth there?
   • Near-synonym: linear

Forms

Coordinates

parabolic · geometric · exponential

Synonyms

linear

arithmetic en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• ərĭth′mətĭk (Received-Pronunciation)
• [əˈɹɪθmətɪk] (General-American)
• [əˈɹɪθmətɪk] (Received-Pronunciation)
• (General-American) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *h₂reh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-éyti Proto-Indo-European *h₂rey-der. Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ρῐθμός (ărĭthmós) Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Ancient Greek -έω (-éō) Ancient Greek ἀριθμέω (arithméō) Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Hellenic *-tis Ancient Greek -τῐς (-tĭs) Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) ? Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Hellenic *-tós Ancient Greek -τος (-tos) ▲ Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) ? Ancient Greek -τικός (-tikós) Ancient Greek ἀριθμητῐκός (arithmētĭkós) Ancient Greek ἀριθμητῐκή (arithmētĭkḗ)bor. Latin arithmēticabor. ▲ Ancient Greek ἀριθμητῐκός (arithmētĭkós)bor. Latin arithmēticusbor. Old French arismetiquebor. Middle English arsmetike English arithmetic 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.

Meanings

1. (uncountable, 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, uncountable, usually) Number theory.

Forms

Deriveds

higher arithmetic (Terms derived from the noun arithmetic) · political arithmetic (Terms derived from the noun arithmetic) · significance arithmetic (Terms derived from the noun arithmetic) · saturation arithmetic (Terms derived from the noun arithmetic) · arbitrary-precision arithmetic (Terms derived from the noun arithmetic) · affine arithmetic (Terms derived from the noun arithmetic) · hyperarithmetic (Terms derived from the noun arithmetic) · fundamental theorem of arithmetic (Terms derived from the noun arithmetic) · modular arithmetic (Terms derived from the noun arithmetic) · binary arithmetic (Terms derived from the noun arithmetic) · decimal arithmetic (Terms derived from the noun arithmetic) · arithmetic bug (Terms derived from the noun arithmetic) · alphametic (Terms derived from the noun arithmetic) · Peano arithmetic (Terms derived from the noun arithmetic) · nonarithmetic (Terms derived from the noun arithmetic) · Robinson arithmetic (Terms derived from the noun arithmetic) · interval arithmetic (Terms derived from the noun arithmetic) · Boolean arithmetic (Terms derived from the noun arithmetic) · floating-point arithmetic (Terms derived from the noun arithmetic) · mental arithmetic (Terms derived from the noun arithmetic) · congruence arithmetic (Terms derived from the noun arithmetic) · vulgar arithmetic (Terms derived from the noun arithmetic) · Presburger arithmetic (Terms derived from the noun arithmetic) · arithmetician (Terms derived from the noun arithmetic) · clock arithmetic (Terms derived from the noun arithmetic) · location arithmetic (Terms derived from the noun arithmetic) · fuzzy arithmetic (Terms derived from the noun arithmetic) · arithmogram (Terms derived from the noun arithmetic) · arithmeticity (Terms derived from the noun arithmetic) · moral arithmetic (Terms derived from the noun arithmetic) · hard as Chinese arithmetic (Terms derived from the noun arithmetic) · universal arithmetic (Terms derived from the noun arithmetic)

Hypernyms

maths (study) · mathematics (study) · math (study)

Translations (75)

kw niveronieth (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · it aritmetica (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · uk арифме́тика (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · tl aritmetika (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · bg аритме́тика (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · de Arithmetik (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · ml അങ്കഗണിതം (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · hu aritmetika (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · ko 산술 (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · vi số học (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · lv aritmētika (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · mk аритметика (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · nl aritmetica (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · gu અંકગણિત (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · pl arytmetyka (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · mn тооны бодлого (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · cs aritmetika (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · iu ᓈᓴᐅᓯᕆᓂᖅ (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · ja 算数 (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · grc ἀριθμητική (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · eu aritmetika (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · fa حساب (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · bo ཨང་རྩིས (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · fi laskuoppi (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · de Rechenkunst (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · ga figiúirí (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · ur حساب (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · ar حساب (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · fur aritmetiche (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · hi अंकगणित (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · fi aritmetiikka (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · fr arithmétique (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · tg ҳисоб (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · cy rhifyddiaeth (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · th เลขคณิต (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · nl rekenkunde (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · ang rimcræft (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · cy rhifyddeg (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · ota حساب (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · gl aritmética (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · ga áireamh (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · pt aritmética (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · ga uimhríocht (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · es aritmética (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · te అంకగణితం (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · hy թվաբանություն (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · es arismética (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · nrf caltchul (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · kk арифметика (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · sq aritmetikë (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · hu számtan (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · tl bilnuran (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · ru арифме́тика (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · no aritmetikk (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · sv aritmetik (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · id aritmetika (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · kn ಅಂಕಗಣಿತ (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · eo kalkularto (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · de Rechenkunde (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · oc aritmetica (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · fa اشمار (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · eo aritmetiko (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · xh izibalo (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · uk аритме́тика (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · vo kalkulav (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · mn арифметик (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · ca aritmètica (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · ang ġerīmcræft (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · ro aritmetică (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · ar العدّ (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · el αριθμητική (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · he חֶשְׁבּוֹן (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · cmn 算術 /算术 (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · lt aritmetika (mathematics of numbers, etc.) · mr अंकगणित (mathematics of numbers, etc.)

arithmetic en · ADJ · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• ărĭthmĕt'ĭk (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /æɹɪθˈmɛtɪk/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Of, relating to, or using arithmetic; arithmetical.
   • 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 group 2008, Emmanuel Kowalski, The large sieve and its applications: arithmetic geometry, random ..., page 189:
   • arithmetic geometry
2. (not-comparable) Of a progression, mean, etc, computed solely using addition.
   • arithmetic progression

Coordinates

geometric (computed solely using addition)

Deriveds

arithmetic combinatorics (Terms derived from the adjective arithmetic) · arithmetic-geometric mean (Terms derived from the adjective arithmetic) · arithmetic average (Terms derived from the adjective arithmetic) · arithmetic logic unit (Terms derived from the adjective arithmetic) · arithmetically (Terms derived from the adjective arithmetic) · arithmetic density (Terms derived from the adjective arithmetic) · arithmetic operation (Terms derived from the adjective arithmetic) · arithmetic series (Terms derived from the adjective arithmetic) · arithmetic geometry (Terms derived from the adjective arithmetic) · arithmetic mean (Terms derived from the adjective arithmetic) · arithmetic hierarchy (Terms derived from the adjective arithmetic) · arithmetic progression (Terms derived from the adjective arithmetic) · arithmetic operator (Terms derived from the adjective arithmetic) · arithmetic spiral (Terms derived from the adjective arithmetic) · arithmetic function (Terms derived from the adjective arithmetic) · arithmetic sequence (Terms derived from the adjective arithmetic)

Relateds

List of terms used in arithmetic in English

Translations (50)

ast aritméticu (arithmetical) · it aritmetico (arithmetical) · ru арифмети́ческий (arithmetical) · fur aritmetic (arithmetical) · el αριθμητικός (arithmetical) · hu számtani (arithmetical) · mk аритметички (computed solely using addition) · nl rekenkundig (arithmetical) · sv compounds with aritmetik (arithmetical) · hy թվաբանական (computed solely using addition) · sq aritmetik (arithmetical) · id aritmetika (arithmetical) · cmn 算術的 /算术的 (arithmetical) · ga uimhríochta (arithmetical) · ru арифмети́ческий (computed solely using addition) · fi aritmeettinen (arithmetical) · ga uimhríochtúil (arithmetical) · ro aritmetic (arithmetical) · fr de l’arithmétique (arithmetical) · sv aritmetisk (arithmetical) · hy թվաբանական (arithmetical) · fi aritmeettinen (computed solely using addition) · it aritmetica (arithmetical) · cs aritmetický (arithmetical) · hu számtani (computed solely using addition) · de arithmetisch (arithmetical) · oc aritmetic (arithmetical) · uk арифмети́чний (arithmetical) · no aritmetisk (arithmetical) · pl arytmetyczny (arithmetical) · be арыфметы́чны (arithmetical) · bg аритметичен (arithmetical) · hi अंकगणितीय (arithmetical) · es aritmético (arithmetical) · fr d'arithmétique (arithmetical) · es arismético (desus.) (arithmetical) · de arithmetisch (computed solely using addition) · pt aritmético (computed solely using addition) · bg аритметичен (computed solely using addition) · mr अंकगणितीय (arithmetical) · sv aritmetisk (computed solely using addition) · vo kalkulav- (arithmetical) · kk арифметикалық (arithmetical) · pt aritmético (arithmetical) · cy rhifyddol (arithmetical) · fr arithmétique (computed solely using addition) · mk аритметички (arithmetical) · lv aritmētisks (arithmetical) · vo kalkulava (arithmetical) · gl aritmético (arithmetical)