jämn

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish iæmpn, from Old Norse jafn, from Proto-Germanic *ebnaz. Compare Danish jævn, Norwegian Bokmål jevn, Norwegian Nynorsk jamn, Faroese javnur, Icelandic jafn, English even, Dutch even, effen, German eben.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

jämn

(mathematics, about numbers) even; divisible by 2
(mathematics, about functions) even; a function of one variable such that f(-x)=f(x).
smooth, even

Antonyms

(about numbers): udda
(about functions): udda