álgebra

From Arabic الْجَبْر (al-jabr), through Latin algebra.[1]

• Rhymes: -awʒebɾɐ, -alʒɨbɾɐ
• Hyphenation: ál‧ge‧bra

álgebra f (plural álgebras)

1. algebra
   1. (mathematics) study of formal manipulations of equations, with the aim of solving certain problems (or the equations themselves)
   2. (mathematics) set of unary and binary operations related to each other by certain properties
   3. compendium of this discipline
2. (obsolete) art of restoring dislocated bones

From Arabic الجبر (al-jabr, “reunion, resetting of broken parts”), used in the title of al-Khwarizmi’s influential work عِلْم اَلْجَبْر وَالْمُقَابَلَة (ʕilm al-jabr wālmuqābala, “the science of restoration and equating like with like”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈalxebɾa/ [ˈal.xe.β̞ɾa]

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• Rhymes: -alxebɾa
• Syllabification: ál‧ge‧bra

álgebra f (plural álgebras)

1. algebra

• Feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ like this one regularly take the singular articles el and un, usually reserved for masculine nouns.

  el álgebra, un álgebra

• They maintain the usual feminine singular articles la and una if an adjective intervenes between the article and the noun.

• “álgebra”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014