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ARITHMETIC OPERATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A mathematical operation involving numbers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("arithmetic operation" is a kind of...):
mathematical operation; mathematical process; operation ((mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "arithmetic operation"):
division (an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed)
multiplication; times (an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of division; the product of two numbers is computed)
minus; subtraction (an arithmetic operation in which the difference between two numbers is calculated)
addition; plus; summation (the arithmetic operation of summing; calculating the sum of two or more numbers)
