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  2. Concoction - Wikipedia

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    Concoction is the process of preparing a medicine, food or other substance out of many ingredients, and also the result of such a process. Historically, the word referred to digestion , as conceived by Aristotle who theorized that this was the result of the heat of the body acting upon the material, causing it to mature and ripen.

  3. Glossary of mathematical jargon - Wikipedia

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    These imprecise uses of the word regular are not to be confused with the notion of a regular topological space, which is rigorously defined. resp. (Respectively) A convention to shorten parallel expositions. "A (resp. B) [has some relationship to] X (resp. Y)" means that A [has some relationship to] X and also that B [has (the same ...

  4. Glossary of mathematical symbols - Wikipedia

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    3. Between two groups, may mean that the first one is a proper subgroup of the second one. > (greater-than sign) 1. Strict inequality between two numbers; means and is read as "greater than". 2. Commonly used for denoting any strict order. 3. Between two groups, may mean that the second one is a proper subgroup of the first one. ≤ 1.

  5. Convolution - Wikipedia

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    The convolution of and is written , denoting the operator with the symbol . [B] It is defined as the integral of the product of the two functions after one is reflected about the y-axis and shifted.

  6. Formal language - Wikipedia

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    The length of a word is the number of letters it is composed of. For any alphabet, there is only one word of length 0, the empty word, which is often denoted by e, ε, λ or even Λ. By concatenation one can combine two words to form a new word, whose length is the sum of the lengths of the original words. The result of concatenating a word ...

  7. Sentence (mathematical logic) - Wikipedia

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    is a sentence. This sentence means that for every y, there is an x such that =. This sentence is true for positive real numbers, false for real numbers, and true for complex numbers. However, the formula (=) is not a sentence because of the presence of the free variable y.

  8. Interpretation (logic) - Wikipedia

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    An interpretation is an assignment of meaning to the symbols of a formal language.Many formal languages used in mathematics, logic, and theoretical computer science are defined in solely syntactic terms, and as such do not have any meaning until they are given some interpretation.

  9. Mathematical structure - Wikipedia

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    Τhe additional features are attached or related to the set (or to the sets), so as to provide it (or them) with some additional meaning or significance. A partial list of possible structures are measures , algebraic structures ( groups , fields , etc.), topologies , metric structures ( geometries ), orders , graphs , events , equivalence ...