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abuses of notation

abuses of notation is the plural of abuse of notation.

Meaning of abuse of notation

Noun

abuse of notation (usually uncountable, plural abuses of notation)

  1. (usually) The use of a mathematical notation in a way that is not formally correct but seems likely to simplify the exposition or suggest the correct intuition.

Questions about abuses of notation

What is abuses of notation the plural of?
Abuses of notation is the plural of abuse of notation.

Words near abuses of notation in the dictionary

  1. abusements
  2. abuser
  3. abusers
  4. abuses
  5. abuses of discretion
  6. abuses of notation
  7. abuses of process
  8. abusest
  9. abuseth
  10. Abushanab
  11. abusing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: abuses of notation (page history and authors); abuse of notation (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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