n.
Pronunciation: ' me-t ə - ˌ math- ' ma-tiks, -ma-th ə -
Function: noun plural but usually singular in construction
Date: circa 1890
: a field of study concerned with the formal structure and properties (as the consistency and completeness of axioms) of mathematical systems
– meta · math · e · mat · i · cal \ -ti-k ə l \ adjective