ARITHMETIC OPERATION

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)