(Alg.), two or more equations in which the values of the unknown quantities entering them are the same at the same time in both or in all.

Simulty
(Sim"ul*ty) n. [L. simultas a hostile encounter, drudge, originally, a (hostile) coming together, fr. simul together: cf. OF. simulté.] Private grudge or quarrel; as, domestic simulties. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Sin
(Sin) adv., prep., & conj. Old form of Since. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

Sin that his lord was twenty year of age.
Chaucer.

Sin
(Sin), n. [OE. sinne, AS. synn, syn; akin to D. zonde, OS. sundia, OHG. sunta, G. sünde, Icel., Dan. & Sw. synd, L. sons, sontis, guilty, perhaps originally from the p. pr. of the verb signifying, to be, and meaning, the one who it is. Cf. Authentic, Sooth.]

1. Transgression of the law of God; disobedience of the divine command; any violation of God's will, either in purpose or conduct; moral deficiency in the character; iniquity; as, sins of omission and sins of commission.

Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.
John viii. 34.

Sin is the transgression of the law.
1 John iii. 4.

I think 't no sin.
To cozen him that would unjustly win.
Shak.

Enthralled
By sin to foul, exorbitant desires.
Milton.

2. An offense, in general; a violation of propriety; a misdemeanor; as, a sin against good manners.

I grant that poetry's a crying sin.
Pope.

3. A sin offering; a sacrifice for sin.

He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin.
2 Cor. v. 21.

4. An embodiment of sin; a very wicked person. [R.]

Thy ambition,
Thou scarlet sin, robbed this bewailing land
Of noble Buckingham.
Shak.

Sin is used in the formation of some compound words of obvious signification; as, sin-born; sin-bred, sin-oppressed, sin-polluted, and the like.

Actual sin, Canonical sins, Original sin, Venial sin. See under Actual, Canonical, etc.Deadly, or Mortal, sins(R. C. Ch.), willful and deliberate transgressions, which take away divine grace; — in distinction from vental sins. The seven deadly sins are pride, covetousness, lust, wrath, gluttony, envy, and sloth.Sin eater, a man who (according to a former practice in England) for a small gratuity ate a piece of bread laid on the chest of a dead person, whereby he was supposed to have taken the sins of the dead person upon himself.Sin offering, a sacrifice for sin; something offered as an expiation for sin.

Syn. — Iniquity; wickedness; wrong. See Crime.

Sin
(Sin), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sinned ; p. pr. & vb. n. Sinning.] [OE. sinnen, singen, sinegen, AS. syngian. See Sin, n.]

Simultaneous equations


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