MATHEMATICAL OPERATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mathematical operation mean? 

• MATHEMATICAL OPERATION (noun)
  The noun MATHEMATICAL OPERATION has 1 sense:

1. (mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods

  Familiarity information: MATHEMATICAL OPERATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MATHEMATICAL OPERATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

mathematical operation; mathematical process; operation

Context example:

they were learning the basic operations of arithmetic

Hypernyms ("mathematical operation" is a kind of...):

calculation; computation; computing (the procedure of calculating; determining something by mathematical or logical methods)

Domain category:

math; mathematics; maths (a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mathematical operation"):

permutation (the act of changing the arrangement of a given number of elements)

combination (the act of arranging elements into specified groups without regard to order)

differentiation (the mathematical process of obtaining the derivative of a function)

maximization (the mathematical process of finding the maximum value of a function)

integration (an operation used in the calculus whereby the integral of a function is determined)

exponentiation; involution (the process of raising a quantity to some assigned power)

arithmetic operation (a mathematical operation involving numbers)

matrix operation (a mathematical operation involving matrices)

construction (drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem)

relaxation; relaxation method (a method of solving simultaneous equations by guessing a solution and then reducing the errors that result by successive approximations until all the errors are less than some specified amount)