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(mathematical analysis, "of" a sequence) Given a sequence sᵢ, a point x whose every neighborhood contains at least one element of the sequence distinct from x.
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(algebra, physics) The state of being anticommutative.
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(mathematics) Describing any function in the complex plane whose derivative with respect to the complex conjugate exists at all points of an open set
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(mathematics) Synonym of arithmetic progression
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(mathematical analysis) A straight line which a curve approaches arbitrarily closely as it goes to infinity. The limit of the curve; its tangent "at infinity".
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(mathematics, computing) The simultaneous clustering of the rows and columns of a matrix
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(mathematics) composite in two different ways
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(mathematics) conjugate in two ways
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(mathematics) Either of a pair of related criteria
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(mathematics) Having two summed exponential terms.
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Alternative letter-case form of bihamiltonian [(mathematics) Describing any system that may be described by a pair of hamiltonian structures]
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(algebra) A quantity expressed as the sum or difference of two terms.
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(mathematics, music) Of the second order
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(mathematics) A statistic used in the study of nonlinear interactions.
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(mathematics) A binomial variable
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(mathematics) A polynomial or function with exactly two variables.
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(mathematics, computing) In canonical form.
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(mathematical analysis) A ball which contains its boundary, i.e., a ball which is a closed set.
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(mathematics) In a partially ordered set, a non-unit element that has no element above it other than the unit (assuming that the poset has a top element, its "unit").
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(algebra, field theory) Given a field extension F/K and subextensions A and B, the smallest subextension that contains both A and B.
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(mathematics, optimisation theory, of a function on a set) For a given set S⊆ℝⁿ and real-valued function f defined on the convex hull conv(S), the highest-valued convex function that underestimates or equals f over S.
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Synonym of Alexander-Conway polynomial
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(mathematics) closed at one extremum
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(differential geometry, tensor calculus, sometimes as "differential p-form") A completely antisymmetric tensor (of order p) that is defined on a Riemannian manifold; an expression, derived by applying a formalism to said tensor, that represents an integrand over the manifold.
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(obsolete, mathematics) A binary invariant
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(mathematics) Synonym of concomitant
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(geometry) A number in intersection theory. A positive-dimensional variety sometimes behaves formally as if it were a finite number of points; this number is its equivalence.
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(mathematics, of a function) Not affected by a specified group action.
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(geometry, of a point) At which a given function is positive.
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(mathematics) Fibonacci-binomial
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(mathematics) Describing an extension of Fibonacci sequences involving quadratic numbers
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(mathematics) Having the form of a fractal.
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Alternative letter-case form of Gaussian [(mathematics) Of or pertaining to Carl Friedrich Gauss.]
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(statistical mechanics) A criterion for choosing a probability distribution for the statistical ensemble of microstates of a thermodynamic system by minimizing the average log probability ⟨ ln p_i⟩=∑ᵢp_i ln p_i,, subject to the probability distribution pᵢ satisfying a set of constraints (usually expectation values) corresponding to the known macroscopic quantities.
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(mathematics) Having the form of, or some characteristics of the form of, a Gompertz curve.
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(mathematics) An interval in the real line which contains one of its endpoints but not the other one: i.e., it either contains its supremum or its infimum but not both.
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(mathematics) Pertaining to a generalization of variational inequalities which covers boundary value problems for partial differential equations with nonmonotone, nonconvex and possibly multivalued laws.
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(mathematics) Less than exponential
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(mathematics) Synonym of least common multiple
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(mathematics) Of a vector, the norm, most commonly, the two-norm.
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(mathematics) The clustering of clusters
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(mathematics) Describing a structure composed of a finite part, an infinite part, and a form of mapping between the two
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(mathematics) Any surface of vanishing mean curvature. Includes, but is not restricted to, surfaces of minimal area, as given by some boundary conditions.
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(mathematics) Involving the exponent of a single variable
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(mathematics) Pertaining to any of various constructions based on multiple differential equations or operators.
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(mathematics) polynomial
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(mathematics) Of a function, associating one or more values of its range with each value of its domain.
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of, or relating to non-Euclidean geometry
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(statistics) Statistically independent, with reference to variates.
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(linear algebra, of a system of linear equations) Having more equations than variables.
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(mathematics) of or relating to a partial derivative or partial differential
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(mathematics) Synonym of cumulant
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(mathematics) Equal to a sum of finitely many linear functions, each defined on a convex polytope: said of functions between vector spaces
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(mathematics) Involving many exponentials
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(mathematics) A statistic that is a certain kind of linear combination of sample moments. (See reference for details.)
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(mathematics) Involving multiple quadratic equations or functions
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(mathematics) Pertaining to the set of all images of the critical points of a function.
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(mathematics, algebraic geometry, birational geometry) A process (more formally, a mapping) that, given a vector space, specifies an associated projective space; (loosely) the projective space so specified.
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(mathematics) A disjoint caterpillar
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(mathematics) An operation that approximates an inversion; A reversal of the ends while maintaining a constant central region.
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(mathematics) Preserving Hermitian indefinite forms.
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(mathematics) of a polynomial, involving the second power (square) of a variable but no higher powers, as ax²+bx+c.
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(mathematics) A particular generalization of the derivative of a function between two Banach spaces.
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(mathematics) That has a quasi-derivative.
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(mathematics) Having properties similar to an abelian structure
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(mathematics) Describing a generalisation of binomial distributions
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(mathematics, of a sheaf) Belonging to a generalization of coherent sheaves, including the locally free sheaves of infinite rank.
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(mathematics) A kind of Horn clause, a generalization of identities.
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(mathematics) An equivalence relation that is an isometry when viewed at a large scale
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(mathematics) A function that has all the properties of a norm except the triangle inequality
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(mathematics) A generalization of a polynomial
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(mathematics, mathematical analysis, of a mapping from a multi-dimensional space or manifold to an equivalent space) Having certain properties in common with holomorphic functions of a single complex variable.
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(mathematics) Describing a polynomial or group etc that has some characteristics of a split system.
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(mathematics) A quasi-isomorphism.
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(mathematics) reciprocal and normal
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(mathematical analysis, not comparable, of a Borel measure) Such that every set in its domain is both outer regular and inner regular.
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(physics, mathematics) Describing any property that is independent of scale.
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(mathematics) Synonym of cumulant
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(mathematics) Continuous and symmetric but with a nonzero kernal.
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(mathematics) A metric that does not satisfy the triangle inequality
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Alternative spelling of semi-norm [(mathematical analysis) A function denoted ∥v∥ that maps a vector v to a non-negative value such that ∥cv∥ = |c|.∥v∥, where c is a scalar, and ∥v + w∥ ≤ ∥v∥ + ∥w∥ (the triangle inequality); the condition that ∥v∥ = 0 implies that v = 0 is not required, but when it holds, the semi-norm is a norm.]
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(mathematics) Having a dual that is nonnegative.
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(mathematics) Synonym of Stirling's approximation
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(mathematics) A relation which is asymmetric and transitive.
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(computing) Describing an algorithm that runs in greater than linear, but less than quadratic time
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(mathematics) Of a magnitude of less than one unit.
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(mathematics) Describing an integrable condition that has more integrals of motion than degrees of freedom
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(mathematics, physics)
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(mathematics) Greater than unitary
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(mathematics) A property of two intersecting submanifolds, where at every intersection point, their separate tangent spaces at that point together generate the tangent space of the ambient manifold at that point.
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(algebra) the property of an order relation whereby, given an ordered pair of elements (of a given algebraic structure), exactly one of these is true: the first element is 'less than' the second one, the second is 'less than' the first, or the two elements are equal.
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(mathematics) The transformation of a discrete system into an ultradiscrete one
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Alternative spelling of upper semi-continuous [(of a real-valued function on a topological space) Such that, for each fixed number, the subspace of points whose images are at least that number is closed.]
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