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al⋅ge⋅bra⋅ist

  [al-juh-brey-ist]
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–noun
an expert in algebra.
Origin:
1665–75; algebra + -ist
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al·ge·bra   (āl'jə-brə)   
n.  

  1. A branch of mathematics in which symbols, usually letters of the alphabet, represent numbers or members of a specified set and are used to represent quantities and to express general relationships that hold for all members of the set.

  2. A set together with a pair of binary operations defined on the set. Usually, the set and the operations include an identity element, and the operations are commutative or associative.


[Middle English, bone-setting, and Italian, algebra, both from Medieval Latin, from Arabic al-jabr (wa-l-muqābala), the restoration (and the compensation), addition (and subtraction) : al-, the + jabr, bone-setting, restoration (from jabara, to set (bones), force, restore; see gpr in Semitic roots).]
al'ge·bra'ist (-brā'ĭst) n.
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