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math·e·mat·i·cal

(măth′ə-măt′ĭ-kəl) also math·e·mat·ic (-ĭk)

adj.

1. Of or relating to mathematics.

a. Precise; exact.

b. Absolute; certain.

3. Possible according to mathematics but highly improbable: The team has only a mathematical chance to win the championship.

[Middle English, from Medieval Latin mathēmaticālis, from Latin mathēmaticus, from Greek mathēmatikos, from mathēma, mathēmat-, science, learning, from manthanein, math-, to learn; see mendh- in Indo-European roots.]

math′e·mat′i·cal·ly adv.

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Adv.

mathematically - with respect to mathematics; "mathematically impossible"

Translations

رياضِيَّا

matematicky

matematiskt

mathematisch

mathématiquement

matematikailag

stærîfræîilega; nákvæmlega

matematicamente

helt nøyaktig

matematicky

matematično

matematiksel olarak

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mathematically

[ˌmæθəˈmætɪkəlɪ] ADV → matemáticamente

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

mathematically

adv → mathematisch; possible, impossible, complicated → rechnerisch; mathematically speaking (= numerically speaking) → rein zahlenmäßig

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

mathematically

[ˌmæθ/əˈmætɪk/əlɪ] adv → matematicamente

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

mathematics

(mӕθəˈmӕtiks) noun singular

(abbreviation maths (mӕθs) , (American) math (mӕθ) ) the science or branch of knowledge dealing with measurements, numbers and quantities.

ˌmatheˈmatical adjective

1. of or done by mathematics. mathematical tables.

2. very exact or accurate. mathematical precision.

ˌmatheˈmatically adverb

ˌmathemaˈtician (-ˈtiʃən) noun

1. a person who is good at mathematics. For a young boy, he's quite a mathematician!

2. someone who works in mathematics. He is a mathematician with a local engineering firm.

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Mathematically speaking the thing is possible; but humanly speaking it is impossible--or afterwards--or afterwards--"

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He breakfasted and dined at the club, at hours mathematically fixed, in the same room, at the same table, never taking his meals with other members, much less bringing a guest with him; and went home at exactly midnight, only to retire at once to bed.

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All human actions will then, of course, be tabulated according to these laws, mathematically, like tables of logarithms up to 108,000, and entered in an index; or, better still, there would be published certain edifying works of the nature of encyclopaedic lexicons, in which everything will be so clearly calculated and explained that there will be no more incidents or adventures in the world.

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Three little hills stood near each other, and down in the midst of them sunk a hollow basin, almost mathematically circular, two or three hundred feet in breadth, and of such depth that a stately cedar might but just be visible above the sides.

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For Kutuzov this was mathematically clear, as it is that if when playing draughts I have one man less and go on exchanging, I shall certainly lose, and therefore should not exchange.

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I shall develop the inevitability of the breakdown of the capitalist system, and I shall demonstrate mathematically why it must break down.

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Do you know, gentlemen --very gravely and mathematically bowing to each Captain in succession -- Do you know, gentlemen, that the digestive organs of the whale are so inscrutably constructed by Divine Providence, that it is quite impossible for him to completely digest even a man's arm?

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"But this statement is not mathematically correct, because the equinox does not necessarily begin at noon."

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When the homogeneous atoms of a mineral, moving freely in solution, arrange themselves into shapes mathematically perfect, or particles of frozen moisture into the symmetrical and beautiful forms of snowflakes, you have nothing to say.

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In France there are some who maintain that, mathematically, a bird cannot possibly fly; and others who demonstrate theoretically that fishes were never made to live in water."

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The discharge, mathematically calculated, would carry the projectile to the very center of the lunar disc.

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He tried to mathematically prove to himself that he would not run from a battle.