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math

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[ math ]

math

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[ math ]

noun

British Dialect.
  1. a mowing; a leveling or cutting down of grass, grain, etc., with a mowing machine or scythe.
  2. the crop mowed.

math

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[ muhth ]

noun

  1. a Hindu monastery.

math.

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abbreviation for

  1. mathematical.
  2. mathematician.
  3. mathematics.

math

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/ æθ /

noun

  1. informal.
    short for mathematics Brit equivalentmaths
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math.

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abbreviation for

  1. mathematics
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of math1

First recorded in 1845–50; by shortening

Origin of math2

First recorded before 900; Middle English (bede)-mad, a kind of manorial duty to mow for one's lord, Old English ǣٳ “mowing, hay harvest”; cognate with German Mahd, Old Frisian ŧٳ, Old Saxon (岹) “mowing (day)”; aftermath, mow 1, mow 2

Origin of math3

First recorded in 1825–35; from Hindi ṻ, from Sanskrit “hut, cottage, cell, monastery”
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But teaching math never was the strong suit of the American educational system.

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Economists were stunned at the Trump administration's math.

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He added, “I know that the math says that we’re not going to go 162-0, but each night we take the field I feel like we’re going to win, so, whatever that means.”

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The irony was that no one ignored “the math and the facts” about Social Security more than Simpson.

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“My dad says math has been debunked,” a classmate insists.

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