Prealgebra
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A school (in the US, middle school) course that introduces students to concepts needed to learn algebra. US, uncountable
"2000, Alfred S. Posamentier, Making Pre-Algebra Come Alive, Sage Publications (Corwin Press), page 1, In most secondary school curricula, pre-algebra is the last course in which specific attention is paid to multiplication, division, squares, cubes, and primes. Thereafter, these skills and operations are pretty much taken for granted."
- 2 A particular form of Lie algebra; also applied analogously to other types of algebra. countable
"Conversely, if H is a complete preorder which satisfies the #92;land,#92;lor-distributive law, then, by the Adjoint Functor Theorem, H is a Heyting prealgebra."
Example
More examples"2000, Alfred S. Posamentier, Making Pre-Algebra Come Alive, Sage Publications (Corwin Press), page 1, In most secondary school curricula, pre-algebra is the last course in which specific attention is paid to multiplication, division, squares, cubes, and primes. Thereafter, these skills and operations are pretty much taken for granted."
Etymology
From pre- + algebra.
Related phrases
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