odd
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- adjective
- /ɑd/
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- When counting the children in the class, we found there was an odd number of students attending today.
- odd and even
- an odd number
- odd-numbered
If the multiplicity is odd, that means the graph crosses.
- If the multiplicity is odd, that means the graph crosses.
- My friend group has to be an odd number.
- Aristotle says that numbers must either be even or odd, one or the other.
- So how large would an odd perfect number have to be?
- So negative YS to the odd powers became negative overall.
- Even minus odd odd odd odd minus even is odd.
- And the outputs of the AND gates are odd like this.
Examples
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How is it possible that I have an odd number of buttons?
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My friend group has to be an odd number.
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So we have the end values, the odd values, and the even values.
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So how large would an odd perfect number have to be?
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Indeed, there are no solutions when the set is of odd size.
Academic text (2012) -
The test was divided according to odd and even numbered test items.
Academic text (1998) -
So in total, you'll have an odd number of face up cards.
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Aristotle says that numbers must either be even or odd, one or the other.
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Three pillows, an odd number, would be as out of the question as would be one.
Fiction book (2001) -
When Kate left, there was an odd number of kids at the orphanage, so I was buddyless for a while.
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A way to find errors in data by checking whether the number of ones is odd or even
- Specialized
A leaf made of several small leaf parts with a single part at the tip giving an odd number
- Specialized
A tool with two legs curved the same way used to mark or measure distances on flat metal
- Specialized
An animal with hooves and an odd number of toes, like horses or rhinos
Surface Forms
Etymology
Odd comes from an old word odda meaning 'one left' or single, so an odd number is one that leaves one when you divide by two.