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ARITHMETIC
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The branch of pure mathematics dealing with the theory of numerical calculations
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("arithmetic" is a kind of...):
pure mathematics (the branches of mathematics that study and develop the principles of mathematics for their own sake rather than for their immediate usefulness)
Domain category:
math; mathematics; maths (a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement)
Domain member category:
contain (be divisible by)
make (add up to)
quarter (divide by four; divide into quarters)
halve (divide by two; divide into halves)
divide; fraction (perform a division)
raise (multiply (a number) by itself a specified number of times: 8 is 2 raised to the power 3)
multiply (combine by multiplication)
deduct; subtract; take off (make a subtraction)
foot; foot up (add a column of numbers)
add; add together (make an addition by combining numbers)
factor; factor in; factor out (resolve into factors)
cube (raise to the third power)
square (raise to the second power)
average; average out (compute the average of)
recalculate (calculate anew)
miscalculate; misestimate (calculate incorrectly)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "arithmetic"):
algorism (computation with Arabic figures)
Derivation:
arithmetic; arithmetical (relating to or involving arithmetic)
arithmetician (someone who specializes in arithmetic)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Relating to or involving arithmetic
Example:
arithmetical computations
Synonyms:
arithmetic; arithmetical
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
arithmetic (the branch of pure mathematics dealing with the theory of numerical calculations)
Derivation:
arithmetic (the branch of pure mathematics dealing with the theory of numerical calculations)
Context examples:
Designs vary widely but, in general, the CPU consists of the control unit, the arithmetic and logic unit (ALU) and memory (registers, cache, RAM and ROM) as well as various temporary buffers and other logic.
(Central Processing Unit of Computer Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)
He laughed at my odd kind of arithmetic, as he was pleased to call it, in reckoning the numbers of our people, by a computation drawn from the several sects among us, in religion and politics.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
She helped him with his English, corrected his pronunciation, and started him on arithmetic.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Life had always seemed a peculiarly sacred thing, but here it counted for nothing, was a cipher in the arithmetic of commerce.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The caul was won, I recollect, by an old lady with a hand-basket, who, very reluctantly, produced from it the stipulated five shillings, all in halfpence, and twopence halfpenny short—as it took an immense time and a great waste of arithmetic, to endeavour without any effect to prove to her.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The superintendent of Lowood (for such was this lady) having taken her seat before a pair of globes placed on one of the tables, summoned the first class round her, and commenced giving a lesson on geography; the lower classes were called by the teachers: repetitions in history, grammar, &c., went on for an hour; writing and arithmetic succeeded, and music lessons were given by Miss Temple to some of the elder girls.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
"There is Mr. Butler," she said one afternoon, when grammar and arithmetic and poetry had been put aside.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
What evenings, when the candles came, and I was expected to employ myself, but, not daring to read an entertaining book, pored over some hard-headed, harder-hearted treatise on arithmetic; when the tables of weights and measures set themselves to tunes, as Rule Britannia, or Away with Melancholy; when they wouldn't stand still to be learnt, but would go threading my grandmother's needle through my unfortunate head, in at one ear and out at the other!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
"Mathematics, arithmetic," was the answer.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
