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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englisharsmetike, fromOld Frencharismetique, fromLatinarithmētica, fromAncient Greekἀριθμητική (τέχνη)(arithmētikḗ (tékhnē),“(art of) counting”), feminine ofἀριθμητικός(arithmētikós,“arithmetical”), fromἀριθμός(arithmós,“number, counting”), fromProto-Indo-European*h₂ri-dʰh₁-mó-s, form of*h₂rey-(“to count, reason”). Used in English since 13th century.

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Noun

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arithmetic (usuallyuncountable,pluralarithmetics)

  1. Themathematics ofnumbers (integers,rational numbers,real numbers, orcomplex numbers) under theoperations ofaddition,subtraction,multiplication, anddivision.
    • 1992, Douglas M. Priest,On Properties of Floating PointArithmetics,University of California, Berkeley,page17:
      Note that all correctly roundingarithmetics satisfy property A1, as do those with properly truncating addition. All faithful binaryarithmetics and allarithmetics with either properly truncating or correctly chopping addition satisfy property A2.
    • 2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, inThe Economist, volume408, number8845:
      [The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across.[…]Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, and that in several cases these bacteria were dividing and thus, by the perversearithmetic of biological terminology, multiplying.
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mathematics of numbers, etc.

Adjective

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arithmetic (notcomparable)

  1. Increasing or decreasing by anarithmetic progression.
    Coordinate terms:geometric,exponential;parabolic
    Near-synonym:linear
    Growth in the most mature markets is likely to bearithmetic; on what rational basis could one hope for exponential growth there?

Etymology 2

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FromFrencharithmétique,[1] fromLatinarithmēticus, fromAncient Greekἀριθμητῐκός(arithmētĭkós).

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Adjective

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arithmetic (notcomparable)

  1. (mathematics) Of, relating to, or using arithmetic;arithmetical.
    arithmetic geometry
    • 2008, Emmanuel Kowalski,The large sieve and its applications: arithmetic geometry, random ..., page189:
      Moreover, the latest work of Katz, involving the so-called 'Larsen alternative', provides new criteria, of a veryarithmetic nature, to (almost) determine the rational monodromy group
  2. (arithmetic) Of aprogression,mean, etc, computed solely using addition.
    arithmetic progression
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arithmetical
computed solely using addition

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References

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  1. ^“arithmetic,adj.”, inOED OnlinePaid subscription required⁠‎[1], Oxford:Oxford University Press, launched 2000, archived fromthe original on2023-09-30.
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