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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Apavarta (अपवर्त).—&c. See under अपवृ, अपवृज्-अपवृत् (apavṛ, apavṛj-apavṛt).

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Apavarta (अपवर्त).—

1) Taking away, removing.

2) (Math.) The (common) divisor which is applied to both or either of the quantities of an equation.

3) Reduction to a common measure.

Derivable forms: apavartaḥ (अपवर्तः).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1) Apavarta (अपवर्त):—[=apa-varta] a etc. See apa-√vrit.

2) [=apa-varta] [from apa-vṛt] b m. (in [arithmetic] or [algebra]) reduction to a common measure

3) [v.s. ...] the divisor (which is applied to both or either of the quantities of an equation).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Goldstücker Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Apavarta (अपवर्त):—[tatpurusha compound] m.

(-rtaḥ) (In Algebra.) The common measure, the divisor which is assumed for both or either of the quantities, without leaving a remainder (Colebr. Brahmagupta p. 363); e. g. utpatsyamānayaivaṃ mūlakaraṇyālpayā caturguṇayā . yāsāmapavartaḥ syādrūpakṛtestā viśodhyāḥ syuḥ . apavartādapi labdhā mūlakaraṇyo bhavanti tāścāpi . ‘those terms are to be subtracted from the square of the rational number, which are exactly measured by four times the smaller radical surd thence to be deduced; the quotients found by that common measure are surds in the root’. (In this passage from the Vījagaṇita p. 18 Colebrooke (Alg. p. 153) has had however instead of the first apavarta, the reading apavartana q. v.) E. vṛt, in the caus., with apa, kṛt aff. ghañ.

Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary (S)

Apavarta (अपवर्त) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Oyatta.

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Varta, Apa.

Starts with: Apavartaka, Apavartana.

Ends with: Nirapavarta.

Full-text: Oyatta, Nirapavarta.

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