What is a synonym for "arithmetical"?

Common synonyms include: algebraic, algorismic, algorithmic, aliquot, analytic, arithmetic.

Arithmetical

adj, noun

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Noun

1
Synonym of arithmetic mean. archaic

Adjective

1
Of or pertaining to arithmetic, particularly the functions of arithmetic (noun; stress on the second syllable). not-comparable

Adjective

1
relating to or involving arithmetic wordnet

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algebraic algorismic algorithmic aliquot analytic arithmetic

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"I do come home at Christmas. We all do, or we all should. We all come home, or ought to come home, for a short holiday — the longer, the better — from the great boarding-school, where we are forever working at our arithmetical slates, to take, and give a rest."

Etymology

From Latin arithmēticus + -al; equivalent to arithmetic + -al.

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