Join free

math

English · Français · Thesaurus

AI In plain words

Writing a short explanation…

Written by a house AI from the entry below, in your language. The entry itself is the source.

math¹

  • /mæθ/ US
  • /mat/ Philippines

Rhymes with -æθ

Where it comes from

Clipping of mathematics.

noun maths

  1. Canada, Philippines, US, abbreviation, clipping, informal Clipping of mathematics Clarke stumbled into music by way of a high school course he took to raise his grades. "Music was a bird course. I had more interest in math, science, and women", he divulged.
  2. Canada, Philippines, US, informal, uncountable Arithmetic calculations; (see do the math). If you do the math, you'll see that it’s not such a bargain.
  3. Canada, Philippines, US, countable, informal A math course or class. They needed to take two more maths in order to graduate.

verb maths · mathing · mathed

  1. colloquial, informal To perform mathematical calculations or mathematical analysis; to do math
  2. slang To add up, compute; (by extension) to make sense. Wait. This doesn't make sense. I mean, the math is not mathing.

math²

  • /mæθ/ US
  • /mɑːθ/ UK

Rhymes with -æθ, -ɑːθ

Where it comes from

From Middle English math, from Old English mǣþ (“a mowing, that which is mown, cutting of grass”), from Proto-Germanic *mēþą (“a mowing”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂meh₁- (“to mow”); equivalent to mow + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Cognate with German Mahd (“a mowing, reaping”), West Frisian mêd (“area of land that can be mown in one day; domain, realm”). Related also to Old English mǣd (“mead, meadow, pasture”). See meadow.

noun maths

  1. archaic A mowing; what is gathered from mowing.

math³

  • /mʌt/
  • /mɑːt/

Where it comes from

Contraction of matha.

noun maths

  1. Hinduism, Jainism, abbreviation, clipping Clipping of matha

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: mathematics, mathematically, calculus, calculation, calculated, mathematician, mathematical, arithmetic, algebra, calculating, computation, numeracy, computing, figuring, design, equation

Translations

Every language

noun short form of mathematics

Españolmate, mates
Françaismaths
DeutschMathe
Italianomate
Русскийматика matika
Tiếng Việttoán, toán học

Talk about this word

Cite this
MLA

"math." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/math. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

math. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/math

Chicago

"math." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/math.

BibTeX
@misc{math_2026,
  title = {math},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/math},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}