math
IPA: mˈæθ
noun
- (informal, uncountable, Canada, US, Philippines) Arithmetic calculations; (see do the math).
- (informal, countable, Canada, US, Philippines) A math course or class.
- A mowing; what is gathered from mowing.
- (informal, uncountable, Canada, US, Philippines) Clipping of mathematics. [An abstract representational system studying numbers, shapes, structures, quantitative change and relationships between them.]
- (Hinduism, Jainism) Clipping of matha. [(Hinduism, Jainism) A monastic or similar religious establishment in Hinduism and Jainism, usually more formal and hierarchical than an ashram.]
verb
- (colloquial, informal) to perform mathematical calculations or mathematical analysis; to do math
- (slang) To add up, compute; (by extension) to make sense.
Examples of "math" in Sentences
- I don't like math.
- He was a math tutor.
- Math is my favorite subject.
- The life in the math was stifling.
- They regarded the math problem calculable.
- His favourite subject is science, not math.
- The concept of Math is the universal language.
- She "calulated," her math is as bad as her english.
- The only way to be strong in math is to put the time in.
- The calculable math formula was not easy for all students.
- Somebody fix the math in the CG calculation in the article.
- The math team participates in the Westchester Interscholastic Math League.
- The total PhD number for blacks in math is often in the single digits nationwide.
- If getting higher scores in math is 'smart' then maybe South Indians would trump North Indians.
- Very little math is happening in math classes today, but then the WASL requires very little basic math.
- If my math is accurate, they receive an average of six stories per day, which means five out of six hit the cutting room floor.
- He holds a bachelor's degree in math from the University of Delhi and an MBA in marketing and finance from the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad.
- Colloquially we say “four hundred and sixty-three,” for example, but the convention in math is that “and” stands for a decimal: 463 is “four hundred sixty-three”, 4.63 is “four AND sixty-three hundreths.”
- A survey of middle-school girls reveals that their self-confidence in math suffers when their parents believe the gender stereotype that holds that math is a male domain and when the parents give unsolicited help with homework.
- I should not admit that Luke is following an unjustifiable archaism in using the term mathētai so frequently in Acts. [690] Is not a restriction of the idea voiced as early as Matt.x. 42 (hos an potisē hena tōn mikrōn toutōn potērion psuchroō monon eis onoma mathētou)?