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Algebra
This word is derived from the title of an Arabic text, Kitab al-jabr wa al-muqabalah (The Book of Integration and Equation) written by al-Khwarizmi (d. 850). The word al-jabr of the title is of two parts: al = the + jabr = reunion of parts.
Cf. Algorism; al-

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