From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Mathsmathematicalmath‧e‧mat‧i‧cal /ˌmæθəˈmætɪkəl◂/ ●●○ adjective1HMrelating to or using mathematicsmathematical equation/calculation/formula etc
mathematical analysis
the development of mathematical skills
a mathematical genius2CAREFUL[only before noun]calculating things in a carefulexact way
The whole trip was planned with mathematical precision.3 →mathematical certainty4 →a mathematical chance (of something) —mathematically /-kli/ adverbExamples from the Corpusmathematical• Possibly not, but that is the rigorousmathematicalanswer to your question.• mathematicalcalculations• This is likely to result in over-simple mathematicaldescriptions with poorcorrelations.• The mathematical experiences involved may be explored in talk with the teacher afterwards.• Luther met Predestination as revealedtruth: Calvin treated it as a mathematicalformula and deduced the results.• a mathematical formula• Many of the mathematical ideas connected with them are described in chapter 5 Water.• An associatedmathematicalmodel { 81 } can reproduce the periodic but not the chaoticregime.• Consequently, this view is frequently referred to as mathematical Platonism.• I believed their arguments on physical grounds, but I did not like the mathematical way in which they calculated the emission.mathematical equation/calculation/formula etc• Rabin's method uses a stream of randomly generatedcharacters that can be decoded with a mathematical formula.• That world evolves in a clear and deterministic way, being governed by precisely formulatedmathematical equations.• Luther met Predestination as revealed truth: Calvin treated it as a mathematical formula and deduced the results.• The mathematical calculations are not easy, but the concepts are relatively familiar.• Solving all the necessarymathematical equations on paper is next to impossible.• Cowan set up a mathematical equation that represented the neural activity, and built lateralinhibition into it.• You can use this function to accept and evaluate an expression, such as a mathematical equation, whilst the program is running.• Another use would be in a graphplotting program to accept the mathematical equation you wished to plot.
