theorem
Syllables: the·o·rem/ˈθiː.ə.ɹəm/
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British/ˈθɪːɹ(ə)m/
theorem noun: a mathematical statement of some importance that has been proven to be true. Minor theorems are often called propositions. Theorems which are not very interesting in themselves but are an essential part of a bigger theorem's proof are called lemmas.
Noun
theorem (plural theorems)
- A mathematical statement of some importance that has been proven to be true. Minor theorems are often called propositions. Theorems which are not very interesting in themselves but are an essential part of a bigger theorem's proof are called lemmas.
- Synonyms:
- lemma
- A mathematical statement that is expected to be true.
- Fermat's Last Theorem was known thus long before it was proved in the 1990s.
- A syntactically correct expression that is deducible from the given axioms of a deductive system.
- Synonyms:
- conjecture, hypothesis
Verb
theorem (third-person singular simple present theorems, present participle theoreming, simple past and past participle theoremed)
- To formulate into a theorem.
theorem meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
theorem in Hindi
- proved mathematical statement
- प्रमेय pramey
theorem in Tamil
- தேற்றம்
theorem in Marathi
- प्रमेय
theorem in Urdu
- proved mathematical statement
- قَضِیّہ qaziyyā
More languagesFewer languages
- theorem in Bengali
- উপপাদ্য upopaddo
- theorem in Telugu
- సిద్ధాంతము siddhāntamu
- theorem in Kannada
- ಹೇಳ್ಮೆ, ಗಣಿತಶಾಸ್ತ್ರದ ಪ್ರಮೇಯ, ಪ್ರಮೇಯ, ಸಿದ್ಧಾಂತ
- theorem in Punjabi
- ਥਿਊਰਮ, ਥੀਓਰਮ
- theorem in Gujarati
- પ્રમેય prameya
- theorem in Odia
- ଉପପାଦ୍ଯ
- theorem in Nepali
- प्रमेय, थ्योरम
- theorem in Pashto
- قضيه qazya
- theorem in Tagalog
- hunain
- theorem in Arabic
- مُبَرْهَنَة mubarhana, نَظَرِيَّة naẓariyya
- theorem in Malay
- teorem
- theorem in Indonesian
- teorema
- theorem in Persian
- قضیه qaziye, qaziyye
- theorem in Thai
- ทฤษฎีบท trít-sà-dii-bòt
- theorem in Vietnamese
- định lí
Examples of theorem in a sentence
- The zeroes of a polynomial are its roots by the fundamental theorem of algebra.
- By Pythagoras' theorem, we can calculate the length of the hypotenuse.
- Only formal proofs, which derive theorems logically from their given axioms, are considered satisfactory in modern mathematics.
Synonyms of theorem
Forms of theorem
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | theorems |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | theorems |
| present participle | theoreming |
| past participle | theoremed |
| past | theoremed |
Origin of theorem
From Middle French théorème, from Late Latin theōrēma, from Ancient Greek θεώρημα (theṓrēma, “speculation, proposition to be proved”) (Euclid), from θεωρέω (theōréō, “to look at, view, consider, examine”), from θεωρός (theōrós, “spectator”), from θέα (théa, “a view”) + ὁράω (horáō, “to see, look”). See also theory, and theater.
Words formed from theorem
Phrases with theorem
- KS theorem
- MRDP theorem
- Coase theorem
- Gougu theorem
- Löb's theorem
- no-go theorem
- Ore's theorem
- Sylow theorem
- Abel's theorem
- Bayes' theorem
- Bell's theorem
- Brun's theorem
188 more phrasesFewer phrases
- Ceva's theorem
- Chen's theorem
- Cook's theorem
- Haag's theorem
- Rice's theorem
- Roth's theorem
- Thue's theorem
- virial theorem
- Wick's theorem
- Arrow's theorem
- bathtub theorem
- Belyi's theorem
- Bloch's theorem
- Budan's theorem
- Eggan's theorem
- Furry's theorem
- Green's theorem
- Gödel's theorem
- Helly's theorem
- midline theorem
- no-hair theorem
- pancake theorem
- Pasch's theorem
- Price's theorem
- Radon's theorem
- Rolle's theorem
- Runge's theorem
- scallop theorem
- Solèr's theorem
- squeeze theorem
- Stokes' theorem
- Sturm's theorem
- Turán's theorem
- Wilks's theorem
- binomial theorem
- Brewer's theorem
- Bézout's theorem
- Cantor's theorem
- Carnot's theorem
- Cayley's theorem
- Clausius theorem
- Frucht's theorem
- Fubini's theorem
- Futurama theorem
- Gomory's theorem
- Holevo's theorem
- Hurewicz theorem
- Japanese theorem
- Kleene's theorem
- Kramers' theorem
- Kummer's theorem
- Lehmer's theorem
- Menger's theorem
- midpoint theorem
- Miquel's theorem
- Monsky's theorem
- no-ghost theorem
- Norton's theorem
- Ramsey's theorem
- spectral theorem
- Thales's theorem
- Veblen's theorem
- Adleman's theorem
- Ax-Kochen theorem
- consensus theorem
- Darboux's theorem
- deduction theorem
- Ehrenfest theorem
- free will theorem
- Freiman's theorem
- Gibbard's theorem
- Gleason's theorem
- Green-Tao theorem
- Hindman's theorem
- intercept theorem
- Koopmans' theorem
- Maharam's theorem
- Menelaus' theorem
- Nachbin's theorem
- Noether's theorem
- Ptolemy's theorem
- Romanov's theorem
- Savitch's theorem
- Slutsky's theorem
- Sperner's theorem
- Stewart's theorem
- Størmer's theorem
- Tauberian theorem
- Tonelli's theorem
- Whitney's theorem
- Zermelo's theorem
- Cook-Levin theorem
- divergence theorem
- Earnshaw's theorem
- four color theorem
- Ginsberg's theorem
- Grötzsch's theorem
- Hadwiger's theorem
- hairy ball theorem
- Helly-Bray theorem
- Herbrand's theorem
- Lagrange's theorem
- mean value theorem
- Menelaus's theorem
- Parseval's theorem
- Petersen's theorem
- Poynting's theorem
- Rissanen's theorem
- Sinkhorn's theorem
- Sumihiro's theorem
- Thévenin's theorem
- Varignon's theorem
- Bernoulli's theorem
- Borsuk-Ulam theorem
- Chebyshev's theorem
- de Bruijn's theorem
- de Moivre's theorem
- De Morgan's theorem
- Desargues's theorem
- Dvoretzky's theorem
- Fary-Milnor theorem
- fluctuation theorem
- fundamental theorem
- Gauss-Lucas theorem
- Goodstein's theorem
- Heine-Borel theorem
- Hjelmslev's theorem
- Karp-Lipton theorem
- Nernst heat theorem
- Pythagoras' theorem
- Pythagorean theorem
- Schiffler's theorem
- Szemerédi's theorem
- Abel-Ruffini theorem
- Gauss-Bonnet theorem
- Hales-Jewett theorem
- ham sandwich theorem
- Jordan curve theorem
- Krein-Milman theorem
- Mayer-Norton theorem
- Mordell-Weil theorem
- prime number theorem
- rank-nullity theorem
- Richardson's theorem
- Riemann-Roch theorem
- Torricelli's theorem
- Vinogradov's theorem
- Zeckendorf's theorem
- Böhm-Jacopini theorem
- central limit theorem
- Church-Rosser theorem
- extreme value theorem
- Feit-Thompson theorem
- Fermat's Last Theorem
- Goddard-Thorn theorem
- Kelvin-Stokes theorem
- no free lunch theorem
- parallel axis theorem
- rational root theorem
- Sharkovskii's theorem
- Stark-Heegner theorem
- theorem of Pythagoras
- Wigner-Eckart theorem
- Blum's speedup theorem
- Fisher-Tippett theorem
- Herbrand-Ribet theorem
- Knaster-Tarski theorem
- Kochen-Specker theorem
- Kruskal's tree theorem
- Matiyasevich's theorem
- Siegel-Walfisz theorem
- Sprague-Grundy theorem
- time hierarchy theorem
- Ax-Grothendieck theorem
- Brunn-Minkowski theorem
- de Bruijn-Erdős theorem
- Fermat's little theorem
- Geiringer-Laman theorem
- Gottesman-Knill theorem
- Harnack's curve theorem
- Hilbert's basis theorem
- infinite monkey theorem
- Kuratowski-Ulam theorem
- Kutta-Joukowski theorem
- Neukirch-Uchida theorem
- Parthasarathy's theorem
- Petersen-Morley theorem
- Picard-Lindelöf theorem
Questions about theorem
- What does theorem mean?
- Theorem means a mathematical statement of some importance that has been proven to be true. Minor theorems are often called propositions. Theorems which are not very interesting in themselves but are an essential part of a bigger theorem's proof are called lemmas.
- What is theorem in Hindi?
- Theorem in Hindi is प्रमेय (pramey). See Theorem meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is theorem?
- Theorem can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce theorem?
- Theorem is pronounced /ˈθiː.ə.ɹəm/ (UK).
- What is the plural of theorem?
- The plural of theorem is theorems.
Words near theorem in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: theorem (page history and authors); theorem (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); theorem (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); సిద్ధాంతము (Telugu) (page history and authors); theorem (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); theorem (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); theorem (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); theorem (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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