WITNESS / 31
ALL WITNESSES ↗PERMANENT ATTESTATION RECORDWITNESS / 31
OBJECT
BEFORE
CLAIM.
THE PRIMARY OBJECT WAS NOT CHECKED.
Sense-specific source-reported first-use date; it does not erase earlier records of the spelling with the numeral-system sense.
Present-Day English1926established
algorithm
Lexicographic first-use record for Merriam-Webster's currently defined technical sense
- WITNESS TYPE
- Lexicographic first-use report
- YEAR
- 1926
- LOCATOR
- First Known Use
- REPOSITORY
- Not recorded
- SHELFMARK / OBJECT ID
- Not recorded
- FACSIMILE
- Not linked
- DIRECT INSPECTION
- No
- CONFIDENCE
- established
WORD DOSSIERalgorithm ↗
CANONICAL FORM NODENODE 96 ↗
01
BIBLIOGRAPHIC PROVENANCE
THE SOURCE BEHIND THE CLAIM
- TITLE
- Algorithm — Word History
- AUTHOR
- Merriam-Webster Editors
- YEAR
- 2026
- PUBLISHER
- Merriam-Webster
- SOURCE TYPE
- historical dictionary
- CITATION KEY
- mw-algorithm