_arithmos_, number.
AVOIRDUPOIS', Fr. _avoir du pois_, to have [a fixed or standard] weight.
CANCELLA'TION, Lat. _cancellatio_, from _cancellare_, to make like a
lattice (_cancelli_), to strike or cross out.
CENT, Lat. _centum_, a hundred.
CI'PHER, Arabic _sifrun_, empty, zero.
CUBE, Gr. _kubos_, a cubical die.
DEC'IMAL, Lat. _decimus_, tenth, from _decem_, ten.
DENOM'INATOR, Lat. _denominare_, from _de_ and _nominare_ (_nomen_, a
name), to call by name.
DIG'IT, Lat. _digitus_, a finger.
DIV'IDEND, Lat. _dividendus_, to be divided, from _dividere_, to divide.
DIVIS'ION, Lat. _divisio_, from _dividere_, to divide.
DIVI'SOR, Sp. _divisor_, that which divides, from Lat. _dividere_, to
divide.
DOL'LAR, Ger. _thaler_, an abbreviation of _Joachimsthaler_, i.e. a piece
of money first coined, about 1518, in the valley (_thal_) of _St. Joachim_,
in Bohemia.
EQUA'TION, Lat. _aequatio_, from _aequus_, equal.
EXPO'NENT, Lat. _exponens_, pres. part. of _exponere_, to set forth (= _ex_
and _ponere_).
FAC'TOR, Lat. _factor_, that which does something, from _facere_, _factum_,
to do or make.
FIG'URE, Lat. _figura_, shape, from _fingere_, to form or shape.
FRAC'TION, Lat. _fractio_, from _frangere_, to break.
IN'TEGER, Lat. _integer_, untouched, whole.
IN'TEREST, Lat. _interest_ = it interests, is of interest (3d per. sing.
pres. indic. of _interesse_, to be between, to be of importance).
MIN'UEND, Lat. _minuendus_, to be diminished, from _minuere_, to lessen.
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