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 2 of 103: from “access token” to “airwall”.
- access token noun An object that describes the security context of a process or thread, such as the user's identity and privileges.
- accessibility noun Features that increase software usability for users with certain impairments.
- accession number noun A unique identifier given to a biological polymer sequence (DNA, protein) when it is submitted to a sequence database.
- accidens noun Synonym of accident (“a property, fact, or relation that is the result of chance or is nonessential or nonsubstantive”).
- accidental adj Being a double point with two distinct tangent planes in 4-dimensional projective space.
- accordion noun A vertical list of items that can be individually expanded and collapsed to reveal their contents.
- accounting machine noun A business machine, generally a combined calculator and printer, that tabulates, adds, subtracts, and totals.
- accountless adj Not possessing an account.
- accumulation point noun Given a subset S of a topological space X, a point x whose every neighborhood contains at least one point distinct from x that belongs to S.
- accumulator noun A register or variable used for holding the intermediate results of a computation or data transfer.
- ace noun Initialism of arbitrary code execution.
- ack noun An acknowledgement either of a packet or a message received from a network.
- acknowledgment noun A response (ACK) sent by a receiver to indicate successful receipt of a transmission (See Wikipedia article on transmission).
- ACL noun Initialism of access control list.
- acnode noun An isolated point not upon a curve, but whose coordinates satisfy the equation of the curve so that it is considered as belonging to the…
- acquire verb To sample signals and convert them into digital values.
- acquisition noun The process of sampling signals that measure real world physical conditions and converting these signals into digital numeric values that…
- act verb To possess an action onto (some other structure). Examples include the group action of a group on a set, the action of a ring on a module…
- action noun A way in which each element of some algebraic structure transforms some other structure or set, in a way which respects the structure of…
- activate verb To remove the limitations of demoware by providing a license; to unlock.
- activation function noun A function that defines the output of a particular node in an artificial neural network on the basis of its inputs.
- active adj Eligible to be processed by a compiler or interpreter.
- actor noun The entity that performs a role (in use case analysis).
- actuator noun The mechanism that moves the head assembly on a disk drive.
- acutangular adj acute-angled.
- acute adj Less than 90 degrees.
- acyclic adj Containing no cycles.
- acyclical adj Synonym of acyclic.
- ad hoc adj Independent of previously instated network structure, like routers or access points.
- ad hocery noun Arbitrary decision rules sometimes included in artificially intelligent software to simulate the unexpectedness in human reasoning.
- ad-hoc polymorphism noun A kind of polymorphism where polymorphic functions can be applied to arguments of different types, as they can denote a number of distinct…
- adaptive tile refresh noun A sidescrolling technique for video games, making unusual use of the EGA graphics hardware to minimize redrawing.
- adaptive-control function noun That part of a control system that dynamically updates the parameters of an optimizing control function or a direct control function
- add noun An act or instance of adding.
- add on noun A software extension or hardware peripheral that provides additional functions or customization for a core application or system.
- addend noun Addendum, any one of two or more numbers or other terms that are to be added together.
- additive adj Pertaining to addition; that can be, or has been, added.
- additive category noun A preadditive category in which all finite biproducts (including the empty biproduct, which by definition must be a zero object) exist.
- additive function noun A unary function that preserves the addition operation; a unary function f such that for any x and y: f(x + y) = f(x) + f(y).
- additive group noun Any (often, but not necessarily, abelian) group whose binary operation is called addition.
- additive identity noun An element of an algebraic structure, generally denoted 0, which is an identity for an additive operation (generally denoted +). That is, x…
- additive number theory noun The subfield of number theory concerning the behaviour of sumsets (integer sets added to each other elementwise).
- additivity noun The property of being additive.
- address noun A number identifying a specific storage location in computer memory.
- address bar noun A bar in a web browser that displays the address (uniform resource identifier) of the page or resource being displayed.
- address book noun A computerized storage area for contact information such as e-mail addresses.
- address of record noun The SIP or SIPS URI that points to a domain with a location service that can map the URI to another URI where the user might be available…
- address space noun A range of discrete addresses, all the address locations available in a particular, named, subset of a computer's (virtual or real) memory.
- addressability noun The capability of a microprocessor etc. to deal with values of a certain size using a single instruction.
- addressing noun Any of several methods of locating and accessing information within storage
- adele noun An infinite sequence consisting of a real number and a p-adic number for every prime number p, such that all but finitely many of them are…
- adespota noun Literary works not attributed to (or claimed by) an author. (Originally used as a title of collections of anonymous Greek poetry.)
- adic adj Relating to adicity
- adicity noun The number of arguments or operands a function or operation takes. For a relation, the number of domains in the corresponding Cartesian…
- adjacency list noun A collection of unordered lists (each representing the neighbours of a vertex) that represents a finite graph.
- adjoin verb To extend an algebraic object (e.g. a field, a ring, etc.) by adding to it an element not belonging to it and then ensuring closure, for…
- adjoint adj Used in certain contexts, in each case involving a pair of transformations, one of which is, or is analogous to, conjugation (either inner…
- adjoint functor noun One of a pair of functors such that the domain and codomain of one of them are identical to the codomain and domain of the other one…
- adjugate noun The transpose of the respective cofactor matrix, for a given matrix. One of the factors in calculating the inverse of a matrix. Commonly…
- adjunct noun One of a pair of morphisms which relate to each other through a pair of adjoint functors.
- adjunction noun The process of adjoining elements to an algebraic structure (usually a ring or field); the result of such a process.
- adjunctive adj The property of two operations x and y, such that ax(ayb) = a, and ay(axb) = a.
- adlet noun A small app or active document that can be embedded in a Web page.
- admin verb To serve as an administrator for or of.
- administrate verb the act or function of providing maintenance and general housekeeping for computer systems, networks, peripheral equipment, etc.
- administrator noun One who is responsible for software installation, management, information and maintenance of a computer or network.
- adobe noun Any file, document or program that is associated with Adobe Inc.
- adoption noun The transfer from an old system to another (usually better) system.
- adorner noun A visual element used to decorate or enhance another element to which it is attached.
- adverb noun In the Raku programming language, a named parameter that modifies the behavior of a routine.
- advice noun In aspect-oriented programming, the code whose execution is triggered when a join point is reached.
- adware noun A software application that includes advertisements, which are displayed while the software is running. Developers use adware as a source…
- aerial noun A highly-contrasting visual artifact in the form of a band or ring.
- affected adj adfected.
- affine adj Assigning finite values to finite quantities.
- affine arithmetic noun A model for self-validated numerical analysis in which quantities are represented as affine combinations (called affine forms) of certain…
- affine geometry noun The branch of geometry dealing with what can be deduced in Euclidean geometry when the notions of line length and angle size are ignored.
- affine scheme noun An abstract, geometric object in mathematics which generalizes the notion of an affine variety qua domain of a commutative ring of…
- affine transformation noun A geometric transformation that preserves lines and parallelism, but in general not lengths or angles; (more formally) an automorphism of…
- affine variety noun A set of points (in n-dimensional space) which satisfy a set of equations which have a polynomial of n variables on one side and a zero on…
- affinely independent adj Said of a set of points in an affine space: the property that the vectors issuing from an arbitrarily chosen point to the rest of the…
- affinity noun A tendency to keep a task running on the same processor in a symmetric multiprocessing operating system to reduce the frequency of cache…
- affirmative adj Expressing the agreement of the two terms of a proposition.
- affirming the consequent noun A formal fallacy, committed by reasoning in the form
- affix noun The complex number a+bi associated with the point in the Gauss plane with coordinates (a,b).
- affordance noun Anything that is provided or furnished by an environment to an organism dwelling within it.
- agar noun A pattern that is periodic in both space and time covering the whole plane.
- agent noun In the client-server model, the part of the system that performs information preparation and exchange on behalf of a client or server.…
- agent-oriented adj Of or pertaining to a programming paradigm where the construction of the software is centered on the concept of externally specified…
- agentic adj Acting autonomously on behalf of a user; (now especially artificial intelligence) involving the use of agentic AI.
- aggregate noun A set (collection of objects).
- aggregation noun Summarizing multiple routes into one route.
- aggressive adj Exploiting every opportunity to be applied.
- agile noun Agile software development.
- agnostic adj Unaware or noncommittal regarding the specific nature of the components or input with which it interacts.
- agonic adj Lacking an angle.
- Ahlfors theory noun A geometric counterpart to Nevanlinna theory that extends the applicability of the concept of covering surface (of a topological space) by…
- air gap noun A network security measure that consists of ensuring that a secure computer network is physically isolated from unsecured networks, such as…
- airdrop verb To transfer a file using AirDrop.
- airwall noun The notional part of a network configuration which isolates computers physically from connection to a wider network such as the Internet.