paheko
1. (verb) (-hia,-tia) to combine, cooperate, join.
Ka tahuri atu ia ka paheko ki te hanga i te rori tōtō kāta i ngā mānia o Waimate (TTR 1990:44). / He set about cooperating in the construction of the coach road across the Waimate Plain.
See also pahekotanga
2. (noun) operation (number or algebraic).
E whā ngā paheko tau matua, arā, ngā momo honohono i te tau - ko te tāpiri, ko te tango, ko te whakarea, ko te whakawehe. Ka kīia ēnei paheko katoa, he paheko tāhūrua nā te mea ka puta he tau tuatoru i te pāhekoheko o ētahi tau e rua (TRP 2010:188). / There are four main number operations or ways of combining numbers together. They are addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. These are called binary operations because two numbers are combined to produce a third (TRP 2010:188).
