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arithmetical

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a·rith·me·tic  (-rthm-tk)
n.
1. The mathematics of integers, rational numbers, real numbers, or complex numbers under addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
2. Archaic A book on this kind of mathematics.
adj. ar·ith·met·ic (rth-mtk) also arith·meti·cal (rth-mt-kl)
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 arithmtica, from Greek arithmtik (tekhn), (art) of counting, feminine of arithmtikos, from arithmein, to count, from arithmos, number; see ar- in Indo-European roots.]

arith·meti·cal·ly adv.
a·rithme·tician (-tshn) n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.arithmetical - relating to or involving arithmeticarithmetical - relating to or involving arithmetic; "arithmetical computations"
Translations
arithmetical [ˌærɪθˈmɛtɪkəl] adjarithmétique
arithmetical
adjrechnerisch; arithmetical geniusRechenkünstler(in) m(f); the basic arithmetical skillsGrundwissen ntim Rechnen; arithmetical progressionarithmetische Reihe
arithmetical [ˌæriθˈmɛtɪkl] adjaritmetico/a


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She was too deeply materialized, poor woman, by her long and enforced bondage to that arithmetical demon Profit-and-Loss, to retain much curiousity for its own sake, and apart from possible lodgers' pockets.
He did not sleep the whole night, and his fury, growing in a sort of vast, arithmetical progression, reached its highest limits in the morning.
Nothing can be more fallacious than to found our political calculations on arithmetical principles.
 
 
 
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