Definitions for algebra

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algebra al·ge·bra

Spelling: [al-juh-bruh]

IPA: /ˈæl dʒə brə/

Algebra is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 182 anagrams from letters in algebra (aabeglr).

Definitions for algebra

noun

1. the branch of mathematics that deals with general statements of relations, utilizing letters and other symbols to represent specific sets of numbers, values, vectors, etc., in the description of such relations.
2. any of several algebraic systems, especially a ring in which elements can be multiplied by real or complex numbers (linear algebra) as well as by other elements of the ring.
3. any special system of notation adapted to the study of a special system of relationship:

Origin of algebra

1535-45; Medieval Latin Arabic al-jabr literally, restoration

Examples for algebra

What did those darned Muslims give us other than grammar and algebra?

She went singing to her algebra, which she could not have done if it had not been snowing.

Quite appropriately, Moses received a MacArthur Foundation “genius” award in 1982 for his work with the algebra Project.

That same year Forever 21 was forced to stop selling tops that read “Allergic to algebra.”

To make the algebra work, each day had to have been twenty-two hours in length.

According to every rule of algebra, not more than one of us three should be alive now.

One might almost as well say, "If I only had the knowledge of algebra I had as a child!"

The arc of Hathahate is like one of those U-ish parabolas from algebra class.

Has your algebra bothered you, or is the barn dance troubling your conscience?

Apples and algebra were the things she cared most about in school life.