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Math glossary

A concise list of math glossary words for your convenience. Words in the glossary are updated everyday. If you do not find an explanation for your word in this math glossary, let me know in the contact form.

I consulted maths dictionaries Collins Gem BASIC FACTS mathematics, thefreedictionary.com, and wikipedia.com to guide me in providing you with the following user-friendly definitions. I simplified and clarified this math glossary into my own words to make your learning more enjoyable.

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Abacus	Affine	Analysis	Apse	Associative
Abscissa	Algebra	Angle	Arc	Asymptote
Absolute	Algorithm	Annulus	Area	Average
Acceleration	Alternate	Antilogarithm	Argand diagram	Axiom
Acute	Altitude	Apex	Argument	Axis
Addition	Amplitude	Approximation	Arithmetic

Bar chart	Binomial
Base	Bisect
Bearing	Brackets
Billion
Bimodal
Binary

Centimetre

Calculate	Catenary	Circumference	Column	Complement
Calculus	Centigrade	Class interval	Combination	Complementary angles
Cancellation	Clockwise	Common denominator	Complete the square
Cardinal Number	Characteristic	Closed	Common difference	Complex Numbers
Cardioid	Chord	Coefficient	Common logarithm	Component
Cartesian coordinates	Circle	Collinear	Commutative	Composite Function

Compound-interest	Convex	Cosecant	Cube	Cycloid
Computer	Constant	Coordinates	Cosine	Cubic
Concave	Construction	Coplanar	Cotangent	Cuboid
Cone	Continuity	Correlation	Count	Cumulative frequency
Congruent	Converse	Correspondence	Cross-multiply	Cusp
Conic	Conversion	Corresponding-angles-and-sides	Cross section	Cyclic
Conjugate				Cylinder

Data	Derivative	Digit	Displacement	Dodecagon
Decagon	Determinant	Digital	Distribution	Dodecahedron
Decimal	Diagonal	Directed numbers	Distributive law	Domain
Degree	Diameter	Directrix	Dividend	Dual
Denominator	Difference	Discrete	Division	duodecimal
Depression	Differentiation	Discriminant	Divisor

Eccentricity	Enlargement	Equilateral	Even
Edge	Envelope	Equilibrium	Expansion
Element	Epicycloid	Equivalence	Exponent
Elevation	Equal	Equivalent	Exponential
Ellipse	Equation	Euclidean	Extrapolate
Empty set	Equator	Euler's formula

Face	Fibbonaci	Function
Factor	Feet
Factor theorem	Formula
Factorial	Fraction
Fahrenheit	Frequency
Farey	Frustum

Geometric mean	Great circle
Geometric progression	Group
Geometry
Gradient
Gram
Graph

Helix	Histogram	Hypocycloid
Hemisphere	Homogenous	Hypotenuse
Heptagon	Hooke's law	Hypothesis
Hero's formula	Horizontal
Hexagon	Hour
Highest common factor	Hyperbola

Icosahedron	Index	Interest	Irrational
Identity	Inequality	Interpolation	Isometric
Image	Infinite	Interquartile range	Isometry
Imaginary	Inflection	Intersection	Isomorphic
Improper	Integer	Interval	Isomorphism
Inch	Integral	Invariant	Isosceles
Incircle	Integration	Inverse	Iterate
Independent	Intercept	Involute	Iterative

Kilogram

Kilometer

Kite

Knot

Königsberg bridge problem

Latin square	Locus
Latitude	Logarithm
Limit	Longitude
Line segment	Lower bound
Linear	Lowest
Litre

Magic square	Maximum	Mensuration	Million	Modulo arithmetic
Magnitude	Mean	Meridian	Minimum	Modulus
Major	Mean Deviation	Metre/meter	Minor	Multiple
Mantissa	Median	Metric	Minute	Multiplication
Mapping	Mediator	Mile	Mixed number
Matrix	Member	millimetre	Mode

Natural	Node
Nautical Mile	Nonagon
Negative	Normal
Net	Notation
Newton	Numeral
Newton's Method	Numerator

Obtuse	Order
Octagon	Ordered pair
Octahedron	Ordinate
Odd	Origin
Ogive	Orthocentre
Operation

Parabola	Period	Probability	Proper	Pound	Protractor
Parallel	Pentagon	Permutation	Point	Power	Projectile
Parallelepiped	Percentage	Perpendicular	Polar coordinates	Progression	Projection
Parallelogram	Percentile	Pictogram	Polygon	Proportion	Pyramid
Parameter	Perfect	Pie Chart	Polyhedron	Prime	Pythagoras
Pascal	Perimeter	Plan	Polynomial	Prism	Proof
Penny	Plane	Population	Positive	Product

Quadrant	Quintic
Quadratic	Quotient
Quadrilateral
Quarter
Quartic
Quartile

Radian	Rational	Rectangle number	Reflex	Repeated root	Right angle	Row
Radius	Rationalize	Rectangular	Reflexive	Residue	Rolle's Theorem	Ruler
Random	Ray	Rectilinear	Region	Resolve	Roman numerals
Range	Real numbers	Recurring	Regular	Resultsnt	Root
Rank	Reciprocal	Re-entrant	Relation	Resolve	Rotation
Ratio	Rectangle	Reflection	Remainder	Rhombus	Rounding off

Sample	Scatter diagram	Sector	Sexagesimal	Significant
Satisfy	Secant	Semi	Shear	Similar
Scalar	Segment	Sense	Side	Simple closed curve
Scale	Self inverse	Sequence	Sieve	Simple harmonic motion
Scale factor	Second	Series	Sigma	Simplify
Scalene	Section	Set	Sign	Simpson's Rule

Simultaneous equations	Slide rule	Spiral	Statistics	Subtraction
Sine	Small circle	Spread	Structure	Sufficient
Singular	Solid of revolution>	Square	Subgroup	Supplementary
Skew lines	Solution	Standard deviation	Subset	Surd
Skew distribution	Speed	Standard index form	Substitution	Symbol
Slant	Sphere	Stationary point	Subtend	Symmetry

Tangent	Tonne	Transitive	Tree diagram	Turning point
Terminating	Topology	Translation	Trial
Ternary	Torus	Transpose	Triangle
Tessellation	Trajectory	Transversal	Trigonometry
Tetrahedron	Transcendental	Trapezium	Trinomial
Theorem	Transformation	Traversability	Truncated

Unbounded	Universal set
Unconditional	Upper bound
Unicursal
Union
Units
Unity

Value	Vertex
Variable	Vertical
Variance	Volume
Vector	Vulgar fraction
Velocity
Venn diagram

Yard

Zero
Zone

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