Definitions
the mathematics of generalized arithmetical operations
Word origin
Borrowed from Medieval Latin algebra, from the Arabic الْجَبْر (al-jabr, “reunion, resetting of broken parts”) in the title of al-Khwarizmi's influential work الْكِتَاب الْمُخْتَصَر فِي حِسَاب الْجَبْر وَالْمُقَابَلَة (al-kitāb al-muḵtaṣar fī ḥisāb al-jabr wa-l-muqābala, “The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing”).
Used in a sentence
“Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not only vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.”
“Let us conceive, then, of an Algebra in which the symbols x, y, z, &c. admit indifferently of the values 0 and 1, and of these values alone.”
“Fly ! Fly ! avaunt with that base cowardly gibbrish ; That Algebra of honour ; which had never Been nam'd, if all had equal courage—what?”
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Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Variable math”7 letters
02“Math with variables”7 letters
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