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What is the difference between ethic and mathematical?

ethic | mathematical |

As adjectives the difference between ethic and mathematical

is that ethic is moral, relating to morals while mathematical is of, or relating to mathematics.

As a noun ethic

is a set of principles of right and wrong behaviour guiding, or representative of, a specific culture, society, group, or individual.

ethic

English

Alternative forms

* ethick (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Moral, relating to morals.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • a set of principles of right and wrong behaviour guiding, or representative of, a specific culture, society, group, or individual.
  • I think the golden rule is a great ethic .
  • the morality of an action
  • Derived terms

    * ethic of reciprocity * evolutionary ethic * Protestant ethic * work ethic

    See also

    * ethic dative

    Anagrams

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    mathematical

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of, or relating to mathematics
  • *
  • * 1897 , (Thomas Hardy), (The Well-Beloved)
  • Smaller and smaller she waned up the rigid mathematical road, still gazing at the soldier aloft, as Pierston gazed at her.
  • *
  • Although Galileo had designed a pendulum clock, he never actually constructed one. The first pendulum clock was constructed by the Dutch physicist Christian Huygens (1629–1695) in 1657. He also developed the mathematical theory of the pendulum. Newton also studied the motion of a pendulum and experimented with pendulums made of different materials and of different lengths.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Sarah Glaz
  • , title= Ode to Prime Numbers , volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical' concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from ' mathematical patterns involving primes.}}
  • Possible but highly improbable