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mathy en · ADJ

Etymology

From math + -y.

Meanings

1. (colloquial) Synonym of mathsy (“of or relating to mathematics”).
   • I showed a draft of this book to one of my nieces and she declared it “too mathy.” 2009, Bob Dancer, Video Poker for the Intelligent Beginner, page 7:
   • She first combined her math-y and woolly mind-sets as a Ph.D. student, after admiring a friend’s crocheted interpretation of the hyperbolic plane (curly kale is a vegetable example) and wondering how to do it differently. 2019 May 17, Siobhan Roberts, “‘Knitting Is Coding’ and Yarn Is Programmable in This Physics Lab”, in The New York Times:

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