How to Use algebraic in a Sentence

algebraic

adjective
  • And so that’s the basic idea that’s at the core of a lot of these algebraic constructions.
    — Quanta Magazine, 7 Aug. 2025
  • So algebraic codes are codes that are mostly based on polynomials over finite fields.
    — Quanta Magazine, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The three rearrangements in bold preserve all algebraic relationships among the roots, even beyond these two.
    — Quanta Magazine, 3 Aug. 2021
  • In my view algebraic rules are a reference point to be used for thinking about an explaining policy strategy.
    — WSJ, 15 Oct. 2017
  • Far more relevant, according to the algebraic apostates, is 2π, aka tau.
    — Randyn Charles Bartholomew, Scientific American, 25 June 2014
  • But for many algebra students, the jumble of algebraic symbols is still confusing.
    — Jonathan Corum, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2020
  • The third is multivariate, which revolves around difficult-to-solve sets of algebraic equations.
    — Adam Hadhazy, Discover Magazine, 27 Aug. 2014
  • The first volume is a treatment of the algebraic framework needed to understand the calculus in the second volume.
    — Evelyn Lamb, Smithsonian, 16 May 2018
  • Schemes are geometric spaces that are built out of abstract algebraic ingredients.
    — Konstantin Kakaes, Quanta Magazine, 20 May 2026
  • Wilson instead wrote her master’s thesis on an algebraic topic, a branch of math built on the relationships between numbers.
    — Jasper Scherer, San Antonio Express-News, 15 May 2018
  • All rational numbers, and roots of rational numbers, are algebraic.
    — Dave Linkletter, Popular Mechanics, 22 July 2022
  • His starting point was the theory of algebraic equations (such as the quadratic, or second-degree, equations that children learn in school).
    — Davide Castelvecchi, Scientific American, 20 Mar. 2018
  • For all of his algebraic misfortunes, Lewis acknowledged a great debt to mathematics.
    — Guest Columnist/cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 6 May 2018
  • The hunt will give the students a better understanding of their new campus while introducing algebraic concepts.
    — Corbett Smith, Dallas News, 11 June 2021
  • Within math, they can be used to categorize important algebraic objects called groups, to describe knots, and in myriad other ways.
    — Quanta Magazine, 7 June 2024
  • In many cases, mathematicians have found designs, through a combination of brute force and algebraic methods.
    — Erica Klarreich, WIRED, 20 June 2015
  • Over the past decades, a field of physics has developed that postulates the existence of mysterious algebraic entities called spin networks.
    — Conor Purcell, Ars Technica, 20 Apr. 2020
  • Homology associates to each shape an algebraic object, which can be used to extract information like the number of holes in each dimension.
    — Quanta Magazine, 9 Dec. 2021
  • Most matroids don’t have any sort of geometric foundation, which means there’s not actually an algebraic variety to associate to them.
    — Quanta Magazine, 5 July 2022
  • Both proofs also involve a unique algebraic category referred to as diophantine problems.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 6 Apr. 2020
  • Every rational number is algebraic, and some irrational numbers are too, like 3√2.
    — Quanta Magazine, 27 June 2023
  • This involves converting the PDE into a set of tractable algebraic equations that are assumed to hold over tiny increments of space and time.
    — Quanta Magazine, 19 Apr. 2021
  • The surprising answer lies in a corner of the algebraic combinatorics world that goes by the name of positive Grassmannian.
    — Quanta Magazine, 25 June 2026
  • There is a rather precise dictionary that can, in some situations, help translate a geometric picture to algebraic consequences.
    — Quanta Magazine, 22 Nov. 2022
  • This is impossible because π is transcendental, and therefore not algebraic.
    — Amir Aczel, Discover Magazine, 6 June 2014
  • There's everyday English where operations are verbs, and then there's algebraic language where operations are not verbs.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Another does most of the work of applying basic algebraic rules like associativity.
    — Quanta Magazine, 1 Oct. 2020
  • These bots can generate quizzes, summarize key points in a complex reading, offer step-by-step graphing of algebraic equations, and provide feedback on the first draft of an essay, among other tasks.
    — Chris Berdik, WIRED, 10 July 2024
  • Rather than solving puzzles one by one, Tao began sketching out a rough diagram that showed how different possible algebraic laws relate to one another.
    — Quanta Magazine, 8 June 2026
  • Through an algebraic analysis of the robots’ parameters, such as the lengths of their links and the offsets of their joints, the team mapped out exactly where the singularities lie within their joint space.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 26 Apr. 2026

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