noun, feminine/ˈalxebɾa/plural: álgebras
algebra
Related: álgebra abstracta, álgebra lineal, algebraico, algebrista
From Arabic الجبر (al-jabr, “reunion, resetting of broken parts”), used in the title of al-Khwarizmi’s influential work عِلْم اَلْجَبْر وَالْمُقَابَلَة (ʕilm al-jabr wālmuqābala, “the science of restoration and equating like with like”).