| The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002. |
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| (AK-see-uhm) In mathematics, a statement that is unproved but accepted as a basis for other statements, usually because it seems so obvious. | 1 |
| ‡ The term axiomatic is used generally to refer to a statement so obvious that it needs no proof. | 2 |
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| | | The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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