a·rith·me·tic

(ə-rĭth′mĭ-tĭk)

The mathematics of integers, rational numbers, real numbers, or complex numbers under addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

adj. ar·ith·met·ic (ăr′ĭth-mĕt′ĭk) also ar′ith·met′i·cal (ăr′ĭth-mĕt′ĭ-kəl)

1. Of or relating to arithmetic.

2. Changing according to an arithmetic progression: The increase in the food supply is arithmetic.

[Middle English arsmetike, from Old French arismetique, from Medieval Latin arismetica, alteration of Latin arithmētica, from Greek arithmētikē (tekhnē), (art) of counting, feminine of arithmētikos, from arithmein, to count, from arithmos, number; see ar- in Indo-European roots.]

ar′ith·met′i·cal·ly adv.

a·rith′me·ti′cian (-tĭsh′ən) n.

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a•rith•me•ti•cian

(əˌrɪθ mɪˈtɪʃ ən, ˌær ɪθ-)

n.

an expert in arithmetic.

[1550–60; < Middle French]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

arithmetician - someone who specializes in arithmetic

mathematician - a person skilled in mathematics

Translations

Arithmetiker

aritmetico

arithmetician

[əˌrɪθməˈtɪʃən] N → aritmético/a m/f

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arithmetician

n → Rechner(in) m(f)

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or that he who errs in arithmetic or grammar is an arithmetician or grammarian at the me when he is making the mistake, in respect of the mistake?

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"So then," said Roque Guinart, "we have got here nine hundred crowns and sixty reals; my soldiers must number some sixty; see how much there falls to each, for I am a bad arithmetician." As soon as the robbers heard this they raised a shout of "Long life to Roque Guinart, in spite of the lladres that seek his ruin!"

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You talk of figures, now; you have only to say to Stelling, 'I want my son to be a thorough arithmetician,' and you may leave the rest to him."

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The staple conversation on the farms around was on the uselessness of saving money; and smockfrocked arithmeticians, leaning on their ploughs or hoes, would enter into calculations of great nicety to prove that parish relief was a fuller provision for a man in his old age than any which could result from savings out of their wages during a whole lifetime.

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There was talk of all countries putting bounties on children to increase the birth rate, but it was laughed to scorn by the arithmeticians, who pointed out that China was too far in the lead in that direction.

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Give him sixpence, or five shillings, or five pound ten--you are arithmeticians, and I am not--and get rid of him!"

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The product (as the arithmeticians would say) is an intelligible statement--first, of something actually done in the past; secondly, of something which Mr.

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The worst class of sum worked in the every-day world is cyphered by the diseased arithmeticians who are always in the rule of Subtraction as to the merits and successes of others, and never in Addition as to their own.

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Then there is the fact that Cassio is an unpracticed soldier, "a great arithmetician"

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