Definition of Algebraic

1. Adjective. Of or relating to algebra. "Algebraic geometry"

Exact synonyms: Algebraical
Partainyms: Algebra, Algebra
Derivative terms: Algebra, Algebra

Definition of Algebraic

1. a. Of or pertaining to algebra; containing an operation of algebra, or deduced from such operation; as, algebraic characters; algebraical writings.

Definition of Algebraic

1. Adjective. Of, or relating to, algebra. ¹

2. Adjective. (mathematics of an expression, equation(,) or function) Containing only numbers, letters(,) and arithmetic operators. ¹

3. Adjective. (mathematics number theory) (context: said of a number) Which is a root of some polynomial whose coefficients are rational. ¹

4. Adjective. (chess of notation) Describing squares by file (referred to in intrinsic order rather than by the piece starting on that file) and rank, both with reference to a fixed point rather than a player-dependent perspective. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Algebraic

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Algebraic

algaroth
algarovilla
algarroba
algarroba bean
algarrobas
algarrobilla
algarrobo
algarrobos
algas
algate
algates
algazel
algazels
alge-
algebra
algebraic (current term)
algebraic equation
algebraic function
algebraic functions
algebraic geometer
algebraic geometers
algebraic geometry
algebraic integer
algebraic integers
algebraic language
algebraic number
algebraic number theory
algebraic numbers
algebraic structure
algebraic topology

Literary usage of Algebraic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Theory of Differential Equations by Andrew Russell Forsyth (1902)
"When attention is paid to the aggregate of the integrals so obtained, it is to be noted that the branches of a function defined by means of an algebraic ..."

2. Pelicotetics, Or, The Science of Quantity: Or, The Science of Quantity. An by Archibald Sandeman (1868)
"If » be the algebraic expression of an angle in reference to a perigon as unit the algebraic expression the same way round of any angle beginning at the ..."

3. Algebra: An Elementary Text Book for the Higher Classes of Secondary Schools by George Chrystal (1889)
"Since every equation of the form у = F(z), where F(z) is an ordinary irrational algebraic function (as defined in chap, xiv., § 1), can be rationalised, ..."

4. Elements of the Differential and Integral Calculus by William Anthony Granville, Percey Franklyn Smith (1904)
"Thus, in y = 3 x< - 2 V* - 5, y is in each case an explicit algebraic function of x. Evidently both rational functions and integral rational functions are ..."

5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1904)
"The chief difficulty in studying algebraic curves traced on a surface is due to the fact that such a cur re is in general not the complete, ..."

6. Analytical Mechanics for Engineers by Fred B. Seely, Newton Edward Ensign (1921)
"The algebraic sum of the moments of any number of non-coplanar, parallel forces ... This principle will be used in the algebraic method of determining the ..."

7. Famous Problems of Elementary Geometry: The Duplication of the Cube, the by Félix Klein (1897)
"These new numbers, the so-called transcendental numbers, would then be characterized by this property, that they cannot be roots of an algebraic equation ..."

8. The Foundations of Geometry by David Hilbert (1902)
"etry which was constructed in § 9 by the help of the domain li of algebraic numbers. In this geometry, there exist only such segments as can be constructed ..."

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