APPLIED MATHEMATICS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does applied mathematics mean? 

• APPLIED MATHEMATICS (noun)
  The noun APPLIED MATHEMATICS has 1 sense:

1. the branches of mathematics that are involved in the study of the physical or biological or sociological world

  Familiarity information: APPLIED MATHEMATICS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• APPLIED MATHEMATICS (noun)

Meaning:

The branches of mathematics that are involved in the study of the physical or biological or sociological world

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

applied math; applied mathematics

Hypernyms ("applied mathematics" is a kind of...):

math; mathematics; maths (a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "applied mathematics"):

linear programming (a mathematical technique used in economics; finds the maximum or minimum of linear functions in many variables subject to constraints)

statistics (a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters)

probability theory (the branch of applied mathematics that deals with probabilities)