above = choose (5 above 3) - nad (5 nad 3) absolute value - absolutni hodnota acute angle - ostry uhel acute triangle - ostrouhly trojuhelnik add - scitat addition - scitani adjacent sides - sousedni strany algebraic conjugate - prostor funkcionalu algebraic equation - algebraicka rovnice angle - uhel angle bracket - uhlova zavorka <> angular momentum - moment hybnosti annular - pridavne jmeno od annulus annulus (pl. annuli) - mezikruzi approximation - priblizeni, priblizna hodnota arc - (kruhovy) oblouk asymptote - asymptota axis (pl. axes) - osa base - zakladna, zaklad logaritmu, zasada (opak kyseliny) basis (pl. bases) - baze bijection = bijective function = one-to-one correspondence = injective and surjective function - funkce prosta a na boundary - hranice bounded - omezeny bounded below - omezeny zdola bounded above - omezeny shora brace - slozena zavorka {} bracket - zavorka (vetsinou hranata []) Cartesian coordinate system - kartezska soustava souradnic Cartesian product - kartezsky soucin case - pripad catenary - retezovka (graf funkce cosh) center of mass = center of gravity = barycenter - teziste centripetal force - dostrediva sila chain rule - veta o derivaci slozene funkce choose (5 choose 3) - nad (5 nad 3) = combinations of 5 objects 3 at a time chord - tetiva circle - kruznice, kruh circumference - obvod kruhu circumradius - polomer kruznice opsane cissoid=a curve having a cusp at the origin & a point of inflexion at infinity closed - uzavreny closure - uzaver cofactor - algebraicky doplnek (subdeterminant * (-1)^(i+j)) cofactor expansion of the determinant along column j (row i) - rozvoj determinantu podle sloupce j (radku i) column - sloupec (matice) compass - kruzitko complement - doplnek complex conjugate - komplexne sdruzene cislo concave - konkavni condition - podminka cone - kuzel conic section - kuzelosecka conjecture - domnenka connected set - souvisla mnozina continuous - spojity, souvisly contour line - vrstevnice convex - konvexni coordinate - souradnice countable - spocetny cross product - vektorovy soucin cube - treti mocnina, krychle cube root - treti odmocnina cuboid - kvadr curly bracket - slozena zavorka {} curve - krivka curvilinear - krivocary cusp = a point where 2 branches of a curve meet, end, and are tangent definite integral - urcity integral derivation - odvozeni derivative - derivace derive - odvodit determinant - determinant diagonal - uhlopricka diameter - prumer difference - rozdil difference equation - diferencni rovnice differential - diferencial differential equation - diferencialni rovnice differentiate - derivovat digit - cislice divide - delit division - deleni domain - 1. definicni obor; 2. oblast (open connected set) dot product = Euclidean inner product - skalarni soucin element - prvek ellipse - elipsa ellipsis - vypustka, vynechani ellipsoid - elipsoid empty set - prazdna mnozina equality - rovnost equals sign - rovnitko equation - rovnice equilateral - rovnostranny equilateral triangle - rovnostranny trojuhelnik equivalence class - trida ekvivalence exact differential = total differential existence problem - otazka existence expression - vyraz extremum (pl. extrema) - extrem family - trida finite - konecny fit - prolozeni flywheel - setrvacnik focus (pl. foci ) - ohnisko fraction - zlomek Gaussian elimination - Gaussova eliminace guessing method - metoda odhadu googol = 10^100 (jednicka a sto nul) half-line = ray - poloprimka hatching - srafovani helix - sroubovice hemisphere - polokoule hexahedron - sestisten homogeneous - homogenni hyperbola - hyperbola hypotenuse - prepona iff = if and only if - prave tehdy kdyz indefinite integral - neurcity integral indeterminate form - neurcity vyraz (napr. 0/0) inequality - nerovnost inequation - nerovnice infinite - nekonecny infinity - nekonecno inhomogeneous = non-homogeneous - nehomogenni injection = injective function - prosta funkce inradius - polomer kruznice vepsane integration by parts - integrovani per partes interior - vnitrek intersection - prunik inverse (matrix) - inverzni matice inverse function - inverzni funkce invertible function - prosta funkce isosceles trapezoid - rovnoramenny lichobeznik isosceles triangle - rovnoramenny trojuhelnik lamina - rovinny obrazec least square method - metoda nejmensich ctvercu leg - odvesna (trojuhelniku) line - primka linear hull = linear span - linearni obal linear space - linearni prostor linear span = linear hull - linearni obal magnitude - velikost manifold - varieta matrix (pl. matrices) - matice median - teznice (trojuhelniku) method of undetermined coefficients(=guessing method) - metoda neurcitych koeficientu method of variation of parameters - metoda variace konstant moment of inertia - moment setrvacnosti momentum - hybnost (soucin hmotnosti a rychlosti) monkey saddle - z=x^3-3xy^2 monotone function - monotonni funkce monotone sequence - monotonni posloupnost monotonic = monotone multiplication - nasobeni multiply - nasobit necessary - nutny neighborhood (BR neighbourhood) - okoli nonempty set - neprazdna mnozina non-homogeneous = inhomogeneous - nehomogenni number - cislo oblong - obdelnikovy obtuse angle - tupy uhel obtuse triangle - tupouhly trojuhelnik of the first kind - prvniho druhu of the second kind - druheho druhu one-to-one function - prosta funkce open - otevreny opposite sides - protejsi strany ordinary differential equation - obycejna diferencialni rovnice ordinate - odvesna origin - pocatek over - lomeno parabola - parabola parallel - rovnobezny parallelepiped - rovnobeznosten parallelogram - rovnobeznik parenthesis (pl. parentheses) - kulata zavorka () partial derivative - parcialni derivace partial differential equation - parcialni diferencialni rovnice path - cesta path-independent - nezavisly na ceste perimeter - obvod (1. hranice; 2. jeji delka) periphery - obvod perpendicular (=orthogonal) - kolmy plane - rovina plane figure - rovinny obrazec point - bod polygon - mnohouhelnik polyhedron - mnohosten polynomial - polynom=mnohoclen polytope - polytop (zobecneni pojmu mnohouhelnik a mnohosten) power - mocnina prime - prvocislo prism - hranol proof - dukaz proper subset - vlastni podmnozina proper subspace - vlastni podprostor prove - dokazat pyramid - jehlan quadrangle = tetragon = quadrilateral - ctyruhelnik quadrilateral = tetragon = quadrangle - ctyruhelnik radius - polomer random - nahodny randomize - ucinit nahodnym range - obor hodnot rank - hodnost ray = half-line - poloprimka rectangle - obdelnik rectangle rule - obdelnikove pravidlo (pro numerickou integraci) rectangular - obdelnikovy rectilinear - primocary reduce (to lowest terms) - kratit zlomek refractory = a momentary state of reduced irritability following a response regular matrix = nonsingular matrix - regularni matice regular polygon - pravidelny mnohouhelnik resultant - vyslednice rhombus = diamond - kosoctverec right angle - pravy uhel right triangle - pravouhly trojuhelnik root - odmocnina round bracket = parenthesis - kulata zavorka () row - radek (matice) saddle - sedlo scalene - obecny trojuhelnik secant - secna sector = a circle wedge - (kruhova) vysec segment - usecka semi-axis - poloosa (elipsy) semicircle - polokruh semimajor axis - hlavni poloosa (elipsy) semiminor axis - vedlejsi poloosa (elipsy) separation of variables - separace promennych sequence - posloupnost series (sg) - rada (= a summation of the terms in a sequence) set - mnozina singleton - jednoprvkova mnozina sketch - nacrtek, nacrtnout slope (symbol m) - smernice primky (v cestine symbol k) slope field - smerove pole smooth - hladky solid - teleso solid line - plna cara solution - reseni solve - (vy)resit speed - rychlost (skalar) square - druha mocnina, ctverec square bracket - hranata zavorka [] square root - druha odmocnina straight angle - primi uhel (180 stupnu) straight line - primka strict inequality - ostra nerovnost subset - podmnozina subspace - podprostor subtract - odcitat subtraction - odcitani sufficient - dostatecny sum - soucet surd - iracionalni cislo surjection = surjective function = onto - funkce na tangent - tecna tetragon = quadrilateral = quadrangle - ctyruhelnik the greatest lower bound - infimum the least upper bound - supremum theorem - veta times - krat torque - moment sily total differential - totalni diferencial trace - stopa (matice) transpose (matrix) - transponovana matice trapezium - obecny ctyruhelnik trapezoid - lichobeznik trapezoidal rule - lichobeznikove pravidlo (pro numerickou integraci) triangle - trojuhelnik union - sjednoceni uniqueness problem - otazka jednoznacnosti value - hodnota variation of constants = variation of parameters - variace konstant vector - vektor velocity - vektor rychlosti vertex (pl. vertices) - vrchol vortex (pl. vortices) - vir word problem - slovni uloha x-intercept - prusecik s osou x y-intercept - prusecik s osou y zero - nula updated April 12, 2010 -- Pavel Pokorny Math Dept, Prague Institute of Chemical Technology http://www.vscht.cz/mat/Pavel.Pokorny