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Definition of: algebra
(al′jə·brə) noun
1. The branch of mathematics which treats of quantity and number in the abstract, and in which calculations are performed by means of letters and symbols: it includes the solution of equations of any degree.
2. A treatise on this subject. [ < Ital. < Arabic aljebr the reunion of broken parts, bone-setting]
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