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matheses

matheses is the plural of mathesis.

Meaning of mathesis

Noun

mathesis (countable and uncountable, plural matheses)

  1. (archaic) Mental calculation or discipline; science, especially mathematical learning.
    • Forget the Boys, forget your loyalties to your Dead, first of all to Rebekah, for she, they, are but distractions, temporal, flesh, ever attempting to drag the Uranian Devotee back down out of his realm of pure Mathesis, of that which abides.1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon
  2. The science of establishing a systematic order for things. (After Foucault.)
    • I’m using 'mathesis' — a universal science of measurement and order […]1997, Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; →ISBN)

Questions about matheses

What is matheses the plural of?
Matheses is the plural of mathesis.

Words near matheses in the dictionary

  1. Matherlys
  2. Matherne
  3. Mathernes
  4. Mathers
  5. Matherses
  6. matheses
  7. mathesis
  8. Matheson
  9. Mathesonian
  10. Mathesons
  11. mathetic

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