单词 | mathematically |
释义 | mathematicallyadv. 1. In a mathematical manner; according to mathematical principles; by means of mathematics; in mathematical terms. ΚΠ 1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 11 Iris is a kinde of Stone Mathematicallye wrought. 1579 J. Jones Arte preseruing Bodie & Soule i. xl. 90 Whether they be Mathematically measured, or Metaphisically pondered. 1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. 163 He [sc. Joh. Buteo] proves Mathematically that there was a sufficient capacity in the Ark, for the conteining all those things it was designed for. 1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews II. iii. viii. 127 A Doctrine in my Opinion, not only metaphysically, but if I may so say, mathematically demonstrable. View more context for this quotation 1847 H. Miller First Impressions Eng. xvii. 313 If in the science of geometry, it must be settled mathematically. 1876 P. G. Tait Lect. Recent Adv. in Physical Sci. xii. 290 The peculiar properties of vortex-motion were mathematically deduced..by Helmholtz. 1925 F. C. Mills Statist. Methods x. 366 The equation to a straight line..will express mathematically the average relationship between these two variables. 1974 D. Nicholls Inorg. Complexes v. 57 The effect is known as the Jahn-Teller effect after the workers who first formulated the idea mathematically in 1937. 2. From a mathematical viewpoint; as regards quantity or number. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematics > [adverb] mathematically1570 the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > [adverb] mathematically1570 numericallyc1600 numerally1646 1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. aij A Point, by his motion, produceth, Mathematically, a line. 1607 R. Parker Scholasticall Disc. against Antichrist i. i. 35 The chaunge..was mathematically little. 1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. vii. ii. 3 Dial Planes are not Mathematically in the very Planes of Great Circles; for then they should have their Centers in the Center of the Earth. 1730 A. Gordon tr. F. S. Maffei Compl. Hist. Anc. Amphitheatres 362 It being..mathematically repugnant, that part of the Arch of a Circle can be at the same time elliptical. 1862 Southern Literary Messenger Aug. 421/2 They can't crawl under the earth, and they can't fly over it, and, mathematically, they must come across it. 1946 Man. Operation Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (Harvard Computation Lab.) ii. 20 Mathematically all checks may be reduced to determining that a given quantity c is less in absolute magnitude than a selected positive tolerance. 1987 Telford Jrnl. 4 June (Weekend Suppl.) 7/1 Mathematically there ought to be some odds in my favour—say 10 to 1 against meeting a light at red. 3. With the preciseness or accuracy characteristic of mathematics; precisely, exactly. Cf. mathematical adj. 5. 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A2v No two Sons of Adam did ever Mathematically concenter, nor were ever two humane Actions shaped with parallel circumstances. 1662 M. W. Marriage Broaker ii. i. 22 in Gratiæ Theatrales Trust me your Schemes most mathematically Exact and curious. 1712 J. Warder True Amazons 60 Cells..which are Mathematically Six Square. a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 295 Was their opinion so mathematically certain, that they [etc.]? 1814 D. Stewart Elem. Philos. Human Mind II. ii. §3. 163 The correctness of the solution is as mathematically certain, as the truth of any property of the triangle, or of the circle. 1830 Lady Morgan France 1829–30 II. 314 All the nether drapery seemed mathematically measured to the same length and circumference. 1873 T. Hardy Pair of Blue Eyes II. xii. 258 The few graves visible were mathematically exact in shape and smoothness. 1932 D. Maxwell Detective in Surrey v. 86 A ley..is an invisible and imaginary line, drawn from one point in the landscape to another, mathematically straight. 1994 Homiletic & Pastoral Rev. Feb. 9/2 Similar things will probably soon begin to happen in obscure, mostly rural parishes..a process which will occur in almost mathematically predictable stages. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1567 |
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