This page gathers the 10,257 dictionary entries belonging to the domain “Mathematics”, as labelled by Wiktionary. Each word leads to its full entry: definitions, etymology, pronunciation, examples. Page 13 of 103: from “caller” to “category”.
- caller noun A function that calls another (the callee).
- calligraphic projection noun A system for displaying or projecting an image composed of a beam of light or electrons directly tracing the image, as opposed to sweeping…
- calligraphics noun The use of calligraphic projection.
- calloc noun A subroutine in the C programming language's standard library for performing dynamic memory allocation.
- callout noun The invocation of an external third-party component.
- calltip noun A pop-up reminder of the signature of a function or method, to aid the programmer while writing code.
- camel case noun Especially in computer programming, and in the names of brands and organizations: a style of typography in which several words are…
- camelize verb To change a variable or object name that consists of several words into camel case.
- camera noun The viewpoint in a three-dimensional game or simulation.
- can noun Abbreviation of controller area network.
- Canadian traveller problem noun A generalization of the shortest path problem to graphs that are only partially observable (i.e. the graph is revealed while it is being…
- canary verb To test a software change by rolling out to a small set of machines or users before making it available to all.
- canary release noun A deployment strategy performed in order to reduce the risk of introducing a new software version in production by slowly rolling out the…
- cancel verb To remove a common factor from both the numerator and denominator of a fraction, or from both sides of an equation.
- cancellation noun The operation of striking out common factors, e.g. in both the dividend and divisor.
- candidate key noun In the design of a database table, a column (or an irreducible group of them) able to identify every row of the table, having a unique…
- canned benchmark noun A computer program designed for the sole purpose of benchmarking the hardware it's being run on.
- Canny edge detector noun An operator that uses a multistage algorithm, involving the calculus of variations, to detect the edges in an image.
- canonical adj In canonical form.
- canonical conjunctive normal form noun Conjunctive normal form with the additional property that all of the terms of the product contain the same literals, so that the terms…
- canonical disjunctive normal form noun Disjunctive normal form with the additional property that all of the terms of the sum contain the same literals, so that the terms differ…
- canonical form noun A standard or normal presentation of a mathematical entity or a text string, etc.
- canonical formalism noun A formalism for a physical theory which is based upon the canonical equations of Hamiltonian dynamics.
- canoniser noun a software component, algorithm, or process that converts data with multiple possible representations into a single, standard, or…
- cantellation noun An operation in any dimension that cuts a regular polytope at its edges and its vertices, creating a new facet in place of each edge and…
- Cantor dust noun A multidimensional version of the Cantor set, formed by taking a finite Cartesian product of the Cantor set with itself.
- Cantor set noun A subset of an interval formed by recursively removing an interval in the middle of every connected component of the set.
- Cantorian adj Smaller than its own power set; satisfying Cantor's theorem.
- canvas noun A region on which graphics can be rendered.
- cap noun A portion of a spherical or other convex surface.
- cap off verb To glue a relatively uncomplicated compact manifold to a manifold of the same dimension along (a component of the latter's boundary).
- cap product noun A method of adjoining a chain of degree p with a cochain of degree q, such that q ≤ p, to form a composite chain of degree p − q.
- capability noun A digital token allowing a user or process to interact in a specified way with an object that is subject to access control.
- capacitate verb To reach maximum throughput on at least part of a constrained network.
- capped collection noun In MongoDB, a fixed-size collection that, once the size limit has been reached, replaces the oldest record whenever a new one is added.
- capping noun The conversion of a polyhedron into a stellated polyhedron by raising a pyramid on each face.
- Caps Lock noun An input mode in which all letters of bicameral scripts are generated in capital letters.
- CAPTCHA noun A computerized test requiring the human user to perform a task deemed to be difficult to automate, such as entering a displayed series of…
- capture noun A particular match found for a pattern in a text string.
- capture card noun A circuit board allowing a computer to record video from an external source.
- captureless adj (of a lambda function) That has an empty capture list.
- car noun The first part of a cons in Lisp. The first element of a list.
- card noun A removable electronic device that may be inserted into a powered electronic device to provide additional capability.
- card reader noun A data input device that reads data from a card-shaped storage medium.
- Cardan grille noun A sheet of card or thin metal, etc., used in composing secret messages. The words of the message are written through a number of holes cut…
- cardinal noun Ellipsis of cardinal number, a number indicating quantity, or the size of a set (e.g., 0, 1, 2, 3). (See Cardinal_number.)
- cardinal number noun A generalized kind of number used to denote the size of a set, including infinite sets.
- cardinal spline noun A series of curves joined to form a larger one, defined by a set of control points and an amount of tension.
- cardinality noun The number of elements a given set contains.
- cardioid noun An epicycloid with exactly one cusp; the plane curve with polar equation ρ=1+ cos ,θ - approximately heart-shaped
- cardware noun Synonym of postcardware.
- cargo culting noun An approach that copies an existing successful approach without properly analysing and understanding it.
- caricature noun In facial recognition systems, a face that has been modified to look less like the average face, and thus more distinctive.
- Carlson symmetric form noun Any of a canonical set of elliptic integrals to which all others may be reduced. They are a modern alternative to the Legendre forms, and…
- Carlyle circle noun A certain circle in a coordinate plane associated with a quadratic equation, having the property that the solutions of the equation are the…
- Carmichael number noun A composite number n that satisfies the modular arithmetic congruence relation bⁿ⁻¹≡1(mod n) for all integers 1<b<n that are relatively…
- carousel noun A visual component that displays a horizontal series of items one at a time.
- carriage control character noun A character, added to the beginning of each line of text to be printed on a line printer, that controls the movement of paper through the…
- carriage return noun The control character (0x0D in ASCII, abbreviated as CR) that originally signaled a device to perform a carriage return, but now merely…
- carrier wave noun Synonym of soliton (“a self-reinforcing pulse or travelling wave caused by any non-linear effect”).
- carry noun The bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation.
- carry out noun A command that exports a carry (bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation) from the current column of an addition operation.
- carry-in noun A command that adds a carry (bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation) to an accumulator for the current digit in an addition…
- carry-lookahead noun A command that checks whether there will be a carry (bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation) for the current digit in an…
- cart noun A cartridge for a computer or video game system.
- Cartan integer noun Any of the scalar products a_ij=2(r_i,r_j)/(r_i,r_i) that make up the Cartan matrix of a simple Lie algebra.
- Cartesian adj Of, or pertaining to, co-ordinates based on mutually orthogonal axes.
- Cartesian closed category noun A category which has a terminal object and which for every two objects A and B has a product A × B and an exponential object Bᴬ.
- Cartesian coordinate noun The coordinates of a point measured from an origin along a horizontal axis from left to right (the x-axis) and along a vertical axis from…
- Cartesian coordinates noun The coordinates of a point measured as its perpendicular distance to the right of a vertical axis (the y-axis) and its perpendicular…
- Cartesian equation noun An equation that describes a line or plane in terms of the relationship between the coordinates on the axes involved.
- Cartesian product noun The set of all possible ordered pairs of elements, the being first from X, the second from Y, written X×Y. Formally, the set…
- Cartesian square noun For a set X, the Cartesian product X² = X × X.
- cartridge noun A vessel which contains the ink or toner for a computer printer and can be easily replaced with another.
- case noun A section of code representing one of the actions of a conditional switch.
- case fatality rate noun A percentage derived by the division of the number of fatalities by the number of confirmed (diagnosed) cases (sufferers) of a disease.
- case mod noun A modification to the outer case of a computer or video game console, to change its appearance or improve its performance.
- case sensitive adj Distinguishing upper- and lower-case letters. Often used in computer science to indicate a distinction is made in comparison or equality of…
- case sensitivity noun The characteristic of being case sensitive; having different reactions to typed letters based on whether the letters are uppercase or…
- case-based reasoning noun The process of solving new problems based on the known solutions of similar problems encountered in the past.
- casing noun The state of letter case across a whole phrase or whole lines of text; the collective state/arrangement of uppercase and lowercase letters.
- cassette drive noun A cassette tape interface unit for computers, used to read and/or write data to/from a minicassette.
- Cassini oval noun A plane curve defined as the set (or locus) of points in the plane such that the product of the distances to two fixed points is constant…
- cast verb To change a variable type from, for example, integer to real, or integer to text.
- cast away verb To eliminate by means of a cast operation.
- castable adj Capable of being cast to another data type.
- casting noun The act of converting between data types.
- cat noun A program and command in Unix that reads one or more files and directs their content to the standard output.
- catacaustic noun the envelope of all rays that emanate from a specified point (the radiant point) and reflect from a given curve; the evolute of the…
- catalecticant noun A polynomial in the coefficients of a form of even degree that vanishes when the form is a sum of an unusually small number of powers of…
- catalogue noun A directory listing.
- catastrophe noun A type of bifurcation, where a system shifts between two stable states.
- catastrophe theory noun The branch of mathematics dealing with dynamical systems which can undergo abrupt irreversible qualitative changes due to a tiny change in…
- catcall noun In the Eiffel programming language, a run-time error caused by use of the wrong data type.
- catch verb To handle an exception.
- categorical noun A categorical proposition.
- categorical dual noun For a given category C, its dual category Cᵒᵖ is obtained by reversing the direction of each one of the arrows of C.
- categorical proposition noun A proposition that asserts or denies that members of one category (the subject term) belong to another (the predicate term). There are four…
- categorification noun A procedure that defines theorems in terms of category theory by mapping concepts from set theory to category theory.
- category noun A collection of objects, together with a transitively closed collection of composable arrows between them, such that every object has an…