polyalgorithm

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Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-der.

Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús

Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor.

English poly-

Arabic ال (al-)

Old Persian *𐎢𐎺𐎠𐎼- (*u-v-a-r-)

Old Persian *𐏀𐎷𐎡- (*z-mi-i-)

Old Persian 𐎢𐎺𐎠𐎼𐏀𐎷𐎡𐎹 (u-v-a-r-z-mi-i-y)der.

Old Persian 𐎢𐎺𐎠𐎼𐏀𐎷𐎡𐏁 (u-v-a-r-z-mi-i-š /⁠ʰUvārazmiš⁠/)

Middle Persian 𐭧𐭥𐭥𐭦𐭬 (ḥʿʿzm /⁠Xwārazm⁠⁠/)

Classical Persian خْوَارَزْم (xwārazm)bor.

Arabic خَوَارِزْم (ḵawārizm)

Proto-Afroasiatic

Proto-Semitic

Arabic ـِيّ (-iyy)

Arabic خَوَارِزْمِيّ (ḵawārizmiyy)

Arabic الخَوَارِزْمِيّ (al-ḵawārizmiyy)bor.

Medieval Latin algorismuslbor.

Anglo-Norman algorismebor.

Middle English algorisme

English algorism

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English arithmo-influ.

English algorithm

English polyalgorithm

From poly- + algorithm.

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Noun

polyalgorithm (plural polyalgorithms)

1. (mathematics, computing) A set of algorithms together with rules for choosing when to use each one.

Anagrams

• polylogarithm