How to Use mathematical in a Sentence

mathematical

adjective
  • The team has only a mathematical chance of making the play-offs.
  • They recorded the changes with mathematical precision.
  • What are the problems that stand in the way of training a mathematical AI?
    Christoph Drösser, Scientific American, 8 June 2024
  • One of Poggio’s concerns goes back to the mathematical concept at the heart of a KAN.
    Steve Nadis, Quanta Magazine, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Black Moon Lilith is a mathematical point in the sky that is considered to be the shadowy aspect of the moon.
    Lisa Stardust, People.com, 3 Oct. 2024
  • The new finding, by contrast, has the force of a mathematical proof.
    Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 28 Aug. 2024
  • In the mid-nineties, Wall Street was emerging as a place where mathematical minds could excel.
    The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2021
  • But the outcome felt as true to me as a mathematical equation.
    WIRED, 2 Sep. 2022
  • McIlroy had a mathematical chance to return to No. 1 in the world, but only by winning.
    Doug Ferguson, USA TODAY, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Their work joins a handful of other trigonometric proofs that were added to the mathematical archives over the years.
    Leila Sloman, Scientific American, 10 Apr. 2023
  • One of the biggest mathematical discoveries of the past year was the proof of a new, tighter upper bound to Ramsey numbers.
    Quanta Magazine, 23 Dec. 2023
  • Stockwell: Arizona has one of the largest ratios of counselors to students, and that mathematical fact needs to change.
    Madeleine Parrish, The Arizona Republic, 2 Oct. 2024
  • The team used this data and fed it into a mathematical model of rock physics, which is used on Earth to map underground oil fields and aquifers.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 12 Aug. 2024
  • To make this work, the mass of the tachyon has to be imaginary, but in the mathematical sense: Its mass would be multiplied by a factor of the square root of negative one.
    Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The process takes weeks and dozens of trials to perfect by tweaking the mathematical formula each time.
    Alexander Freeling, Robb Report, 1 Mar. 2022
  • To put this in mathematical notation: people in town who can grow a beard and are men form a set M. That set includes the men who shave themselves and those who do not.
    Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Buehler and his lab then developed mathematical tools to automate the process and further study the webs.
    New York Times, 7 Feb. 2022
  • The album, out in early May, is his final LP of a set of records named after mathematical symbols.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 24 Mar. 2023
  • In the standard model, simply plugging in the W and Z masses ruins the mathematical symmetry that produces the weak force in the first place.
    Byadrian Cho, science.org, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The first person to harness this power was Georg Cantor, the founder of the mathematical subfield of set theory.
    WIRED, 29 Oct. 2023
  • But his instinct is that the deeper mathematical description of nature from which space-time emerges will touch all of physics in some way, even with the mildest of ripples.
    Charlie Wood, WIRED, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Last May, Albrecht asked one agent to solve a tricky mathematical puzzle.
    WIRED, 19 Sep. 2023
  • In Heisenberg’s mathematical language, the state of the particles doesn’t change.
    Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 19 Oct. 2023
  • The mathematical modeling used in the study showed both species are much more likely to die from being eaten than from food scarcity.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Then looking up and seeing the ticks going off the clock and knowing at this point, there’s no mathematical way Tennessee can win this game.
    Dom Amore, courant.com, 31 Mar. 2022
  • That mathematical sleight of hand meant that eCash was provably secure.
    Andy Greenberg, Ars Technica, 18 Jan. 2024
  • With this graphic tablet, teachers can show mathematical equations, draw graphs or fill in the blank sentences.
    chicagotribune.com, 16 Nov. 2021
  • In some years, the favorites will dominate, like the final pre-pandemic Tonys when 22 of the 26 mathematical favorites took home prizes.
    Ben Zauzmer, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 June 2023
  • But some mathematical head could tell me what the probabilities of this were.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 23 Oct. 2023
  • In the coming decades, astronomers worked with mathematical equations that suggested there was a planet beyond Uranus.
    Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 6 Nov. 2024

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'mathematical.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: