mathematical

Definition

Of, or relating to mathematics

Etymology

From Middle English mathematicalle, mathematical, from Medieval Latin mathēmaticālis.

Example Sentences

• "a mathematical problem"
• "[…]he looked up the uninteresting left road to the fortifications. It was new, long, white, regular, tapering to a vanishing point, like a lesson in perspective. […] Smaller and smaller she waned up the rigid mathematical road, still gazing at the soldier aloft, as Pierston gazed at her."
• "It has been at least an academic tradition, if no more, that mathematical studies militate against amatory inclinations."