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(mathematics) The mean of the absolute magnitude of a function that has both positive and negative values.
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(mathematics) Describing a lower bound of a chromatic number of a graph
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(mathematics) The maximum absolute value of the vertical component of a curve or function, especially one that is periodic.
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(mathematics) A term that must be added to an equation to represent a boundary condition.
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(mathematical analysis, of a set) That can be enclosed within a ball of finite radius.
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(mathematics) Distinguished among entities of its kind, so that it can be picked out in a way that does not depend on any arbitrary choices.
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(statistics) A moment of a probability distribution of a random variable about the random variable's mean.
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(countable, mathematics) In a graph, a measure of concatenated adjacency (the number of ways that points are connected to each other)
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(mathematics) The inversion of a convolution equation; does not normally have unique solution
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(physics, engineering) A change in a quantity, likely from "d" for "difference".
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(computing theory, of a number) Smaller than the smallest normal number but larger than zero, thus serving to fill the underflow gap.
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(algebra) In an equation, the variable whose value depends on one or more variables in the equation.
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(calculus) the operator which maps a function F=(F₁, ... Fₙ) from a n-dimensional vector space to itself to the function ∑ᵢ₌₁ⁿ(∂F_i)/(∂x_i)
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(mathematics, physics) A probability distribution for the state of the system.
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(computing, colloquial) Something negligible or insignificant.
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(mathematics, of a graph) The partition of its vertex set into sets whose sizes differ from each other by no more than 1.
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(mathematical analysis) The infimum (greatest lower bound) of a function which holds almost everywhere. In symbols, ess inf f= sup m:𝜇(x:f(x)
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(mathematics) To utilize exponentiation.
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(mathematics) According to a factorial series or ratio.
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A difference between the value of a function evaluated at a number, and the value of the same function evaluated at a different number, a fixed distance from the first.
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(mathematics, mathematical analysis) A semi-norm; a function that assigns a non-negative size to all vectors in a vector space.
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(mathematics) A formal power series with one indeterminate, whose coefficients encode a sequence that can be studied by algebraic manipulation of the series; any one of several generalizations, such as to encode more than one sequence or use more than one indeterminate.
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(game theory) Synonym of nimber
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A similar two-stage Runge-Kutta method.
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(Bayesian statistics) A parameter of a prior (as distinguished from inferred parameters of the model for the underlying system under analysis).
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(mathematics) A multidimensional generalization of a sequent
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(mathematics) An equation involving a function f(x) and integrals of that function to be solved for f(x)
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(mathematics) Describing an equation (or other entity) containing both derivatives and integrals
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(functions) A second function which, when combined with the initially given function, yields as its output any term inputted into the first function.
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(mathematics) An endofunction whose square is equal to the identity function; a function equal to its inverse.
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(mathematics) An absence of operators in an expression.
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(mathematics) A regression technique used to interpolate data.
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(mathematics, computing) To interpolate linearly.
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(mathematics) A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit and the lower limit of a sequence: if the upper and lower limits are different, then the sequence has no limit (i.e., does not converge).
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(mathematics) The branch of mathematics concerned with the minimization or maximization of a linear function of several variables and inequalities; used in many branches of industry to minimize costs or maximize production.
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(mathematics) A maximum within a restricted domain, especially a point on a function whose value is greater than the values of all other points near it.
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(mathematics) A point on a graph (or its associated function) whose value is less than all other points near it.
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An exact sequence with countably infinitely many terms.
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(mathematics) A majorization function
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(mathematics) A tool used in dynamical systems theory, allowing the methods of symbolic dynamics to be applied to the study of hyperbolic systems. By using a Markov partition, the system can be made to resemble a discrete-time Markov process, with the long-term dynamical characteristics of the system represented as a Markov shift.
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(in combinations) Having a specific type of (mathematical) mean.
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(mathematics) A function that assigns a non-negative number to a given set following the mathematical nature that is common among length, volume, probability and the like.
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(mathematics) A node, in a graph, that represents a subgraph that is at a lower level of abstraction
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(statistics) A Markov chain Monte Carlo method for obtaining a sequence of random samples from a probability distribution from which direct sampling is difficult.
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(mathematics) Any surface that has the least possible surface area of those into which it could transform; typically the shapes of soap bubbles that span wire frames
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(mathematics) A generalisation of a factorial in which each element to be multiplied differs from the next by an integer (e.g. n(n-3)(n-6)(n-9)...)
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That can be multiplied.
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(grammar) Synonym of multiplicative number
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(mathematics) Of or pertaining to operads.
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(mathematics) A dependent variable thought to change as a function of changes in a predictor variable.
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(transitive, mathematics, signal processing) A Gaussian model of the (non-Gaussian) error distribution on a signal, which is conservative enough that the resulting confidence interval is guaranteed to be at least as wide as the actual confidence interval.
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(mathematics) A derivative with respect to one variable of a function of several variables with the other variables held constant.
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(mathematics) The sum of the first n terms of an infinite series, where n is a finite number.
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One of the ways something exists, or the ways a set of objects can be ordered.
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(physics) A physical quantity that is generally believed to be both universal in nature and constant in time.
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(machine learning) A technique for transforming the outputs of a classification model into a probability distribution over classes, based on a logistic regression model.
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(mathematics) Of a variety: not itself primitive, but whose proper subvarieties are all primitive.
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(mathematics) A function whose derivative is a given function; an antiderivative.
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(statistics) The half-range of an interval about a central point for the distribution, such that half of the values from the distribution will lie within the interval and half outside.
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(philosophy) An operation that is the same as addition unless one of its operands is 57 or greater, in which case it always yields 5; used by Saul Kripke in an argument against Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations.
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(mathematics) Relating to a quasiminimum
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(statistics) A variable with the features of interval variable and, additionally, whose any two values have meaningful ratio, making the operations of multiplication and division meaningful.
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(mathematics) The limit of a convergent sequence of rational numbers, whether the limit is a rational number such as 2, -5, or 2/7 or whether the limit is an irrational number such as the square root of two or the circumference of the circle whose radius is one.
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(mathematics) Of a decimal: having a set of digits that is repeated indefinitely.
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(mathematics) The condition of being residual
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(mathematics) dependent variable
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(mathematics) Generated or modified by a runcination.
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(mathematics) A problem of oscillation at the edges of an interval that occurs when using polynomial interpolation with polynomials of high degree over a set of equispaced interpolation points.
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(mathematics, of a set of equations) To be solved for the same values of variables.
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(statistics) A statistic used to gauge the similarity of two samples. It is equal to twice the number of elements common to both sets, divided by the sum of the number of elements in each set.
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(mathematics) A characteristic of an exponential function, represented by τ in the function:
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(mathematical analysis) An operation (often an integration) that converts one function into another.
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(mathematics) Describing a frame (in linear algebra) having a set of functions less than a basis
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(mathematics) A technique useful for solving strongly nonlinear equations, similar to overrelaxation, except that the variable changes are slowed down rather than sped up.
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(mathematics) A type of convergence of a sequence of functions { fₙ }, in which the speed of convergence of fₙ(x) to f(x) does not depend on x.
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(algebra) A variable (usually x, y or z) whose value is to be found.
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(computing, mathematics, linguistics) Taking a variable number of arguments; especially, taking arbitrarily many arguments.
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