German

Noun

Algebra f ‎(genitive Algebra, plural Algebren)

1. algebra

Derived terms

• Banachalgebra
• Lie-Algebra

English

Noun

algebra ‎(countable and uncountable, plural algebras)

1. (uncountable, medicine, historical, rare) The surgical treatment of a dislocated or fractured bone. Also (countable): a dislocation or fracture.
   • a1420, The British Museum Additional MS, 12,056, “Wounds complicated by the Dislocation of a Bone”, in Robert von Fleischhacker, editor, Lanfranc's "Science of cirurgie.", London: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co, translation of original by Lanfranc of Milan, published 1894, ISBN 1163911380, page 63:

     Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra.

   • 1987, John Newsome Crossley, “Latency”, in The emergence of number, Singapore: World Scientific, ISBN 9971504146, Al-Khwarizwi, page 65:

     Algebra is used today by surgeons to mean bone-setting, i.e. the restoration of bones, and the idea of restoration is present in the mathematical context, too.

2. (uncountable, mathematics) A system for computation using letters or other symbols to represent numbers, with rules for manipulating these symbols.
   • 1551, James A.H. Murray, editor, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society., volume 1, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1888, Part 1, page 217:

     Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.

3. (uncountable, mathematics) The study of algebraic structures.
4. (countable, mathematics) A universal algebra.
5. (countable, algebra) An algebraic structure consisting of a module of a commutative ring along with an additional binary operation that is bilinear.
   • 1854, George Boole, “Signs and their Laws”, in An Investigation of the Laws of Thought, on which are Founded the Mathematical Theories of Logic and Probabilities, London: Walton and Maberly, page 37:

     Let us conceive, then, of an Algebra in which the symbols x, y, z, &c. admit indifferently of the values 0 and 1, and of these values alone.

6. (countable, set theory, analysis) A collection of subsets of a given set, such that this collection contains the empty set, and the collection is closed under unions and complements (and thereby also under intersections and differences).
7. (countable, mathematics) One of several other types of mathematical structure.
8. (figuratively) A system or process, that is like algebra by substituting one thing for another, or in using signs, symbols, etc., to represent concepts or ideas.
   • 1663, William Clark, William Hugh Logan, editor, Marciano; or, The discovery: A tragi-comedy, Edinburgh: Reprinted for Private Circulation, published 1871, ISBN 1446062937, page 13:

     Fly ! Fly ! avaunt with that base cowardly gibbrish ; That Algebra of honour ; which had never Been nam'd, if all had equal courage—what?

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Czech

Noun

algebra f

1. algebra

Declension

Derived terms

• Booleova algebra f
• booleovská algebra f

Danish

Noun

algebra c (singular definite algebraen, not used in plural form)

1. (mathematics) algebra

Declension

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: al‧ge‧bra

Noun

algebra f, m ‎(uncountable)

1. (mathematics) algebra

Finnish

Noun

algebra

1. algebra

Declension

Italian

Etymology

Same as English algebra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /al.d͡ʒɛ.ˈbra/

Noun

algebra f ‎(plural algebre)

1. algebra

Related terms

• algebrico
• algebrista

Anagrams

• alberga

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈal.ɡe.bra/, [ˈaɫ.ɡɛ.bra]

Noun

algebra f ‎(genitive algebrae); first declension

1. algebra

Inflection

First declension.

References

• ALGEBRA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Latvian

Algebras formula

Etymology

Via other European languages, ultimately from Medieval Latin algebra, from Arabic الْجَبْر ‎(al-jabr, “reunion, resetting of broken parts”) in the title of al-Khwarizmi's influential work الْكِتَاب الْمُخْتَصَر فِي حِسَاب اَلْجَبْر وَالْمُقَابَلَة ‎(al-kitāb al-muḵtaṣar fī ḥisāb al-jabr wa-l-muqābala, “The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [alɡɛbɾa]

Noun

algebra f (4th declension)

1. algebra is a branch of mathematics that studies generic numbers ('variables') regardless of their actual numeric value; the corresponding school subject

   algebras formula‎ ― algebraic formula

   algebras specialists‎ ― algebra specialist

   algebras mācību grāmata‎ ― algebra textbook

   algebras stunda‎ ― algebra class, lesson

   risināt, atrisināt algebras uzdevumu‎ ― to solve an algebra problem

   algebra ir viena no matematikas pamatnozarēm‎ ― algebra is one of the fundamental branches of mathematics

Declension

Derived terms

• algebrisks

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Arabic الْجَبْر ‎(al-jabr), via Medieval Latin algebra

Noun

algebra m ‎(definite singular algebraen, indefinite plural algebraer, definite plural algebraene)

1. (mathematics) algebra
2. an algebra textbook

Derived terms

• algebraisk
• lineær algebra

References

• “algebra” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Arabic الْجَبْر ‎(al-jabr), via Medieval Latin algebra

Noun

algebra m ‎(definite singular algebraen, indefinite plural algebraer, definite plural algebraene)

1. (mathematics) algebra
2. an algebra textbook

Derived terms

• algebraisk
• lineær algebra

References

• “algebra” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

From Italian, Spanish or mediaeval Latin, from Arabic الْجَبْر ‎(al-jabr) “reunion”, “resetting of broken parts”, used in the title of al-Khwarizmi’s influential work الْكِتَاب الْمُخْتَصَر فِي حِسَاب الْجَبْر وَالْمُقَابَلَة ‎(al-kitāb al-muḵtaṣar fī ḥisāb al-jabr wa-l-muqābala, “the compendious book on restoration and equating like with like”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [alˈɡɛbra]

Noun

algebra f

1. algebra

Declension

Derived terms

• algebraiczny

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ǎlɡeːbra/
• Hyphenation: al‧ge‧bra

Noun

àlgēbra f ‎(Cyrillic spelling а̀лге̄бра)

1. algebra

Declension

Spanish

Noun

algebra

1. Misspelling of álgebra.

Swedish

Noun

algebra c

1. (mathematics) algebra

Declension

Related terms

• algebraisk
• relationsalgebra