Algebra
['ældʒɪbrə]
解釋/意思:
(n.) That branch of mathematics which treats of the relations and properties of quantity by means of letters and other symbols. It is applicable to those relations that are true of every kind of magnitude.
(n.) A treatise on this science.
錄入:内丽
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Analysis (by means of letters and other symbols), calculus, fluxions.
贝丝錄入
解釋/意思:
n. a method of calculating by symbols—by means of letters employed to represent the numbers and signs to represent their relations thus forming a kind of universal arithmetic.—adjs. Algebrā′ic -al pertaining to algebra.—n. Algebrā′ist one skilled in algebra.
整理:奥拉
例句/造句/用法:
- To the contentment of all he passed third in algebra, and got a French prize-book at the public Midsummer examination. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Our modern numerals are Arabic; our arithmetic and algebra are essentially Semitic sciences. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- A third made use of the so-called Arabic (really Hindu) system of numerals, and wrote the first work on Algebra under that name. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- History is one such group of facts; algebra another; geography another, and so on till we have run through the entire curriculum. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- We may secure technical specialized ability in algebra, Latin, or botany, but not the kind of intelligence which directs ability to useful ends. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- I then bought a work on algebra in Cincinnati; but having no teacher it was Greek to me. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- I never saw an algebra, or other mathematical work higher than the arithmetic, in Georgetown, until after I was appointed to West Point. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- And for this purpose it was requisite to borrow all that was best in geometrical analysis and algebra, and to correct the errors of one by the other. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
手打:路德维格