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 21 of 103: from “corruption” to “crunch”.
- corruption noun The destruction of data by manipulation of parts of it, either by deliberate or accidental human action or by imperfections in storage or…
- coset noun The set that results from applying a group's binary operation with a given fixed element of the group on each element of a given subgroup.
- cosine noun In a right triangle, the ratio of the length of the side adjacent to an acute angle to the length of the hypotenuse. Symbol: cos
- costate noun An equation or variable related to the state equation of an optimal control problem in a dynamical system.
- costatement noun A list of statements that effectively execute together (though not simultaneously), such that each can yield execution to the others to…
- costructure noun The structure produced by the intersection of multiple related curves or shapes.
- coterminal adj Differing only by a whole number of complete circles.
- cototient noun The value of n – φ(n), i.e. the number of positive integers less than or equal to n that are divisible by at least one prime that also…
- cotranslation noun An equivalence map that is the dual of a translation.
- counion noun The join or union of all sets that meet a specified condition.
- counit noun In an adjunction, a natural transformation from the composition of the left adjoint functor with the right adjoint functor to the identity…
- counitary adj Having a counit, which is a map that serves as an identity-like element in a coalgebra, analogous to the unit in an algebra.
- countable adj Finite or countably infinite; having a one-to-one correspondence (bijection) with a subset of the natural numbers.
- countable additivity noun The following property of a measure: that the measure of a countable union of disjoint sets is equal to the sum of their measures.
- countably adv In a way that can be put into one-to-one correspondence with the natural numbers or any subset thereof.
- countably infinite adj That is both countable and infinite; having the same cardinality as the set of natural numbers; formally, such that a bijection exists from…
- counter noun A variable, memory location, etc. whose contents are incremented to keep a count.
- counterexample noun An example that counters a general rule; an exception to a general rule; a specific instance of the falsity of (and falsifiability of) any…
- counterextension noun The set of tuples of values that, used as arguments, do not satisfy the predicate.
- counterfactor noun A spanning supergraph.
- counterlegal adj That goes against a system of laws, such as the laws of nature.
- counterless adj Without a variable used to keep count.
- counterproof noun A proof that contradicts a given statement.
- counterterm noun A term added to an equation or formula that exactly cancels the contribution of another term which diverges.
- counting measure noun A positive measure which, for each subset of a given measure space, assigns a value equal to the number of points in that subset.
- counting rod noun One of a set of small bars, used by mathematicians in some Asian countries, placed either horizontally or vertically to represent any…
- counting sort noun A sorting algorithm that counts how many times each integer key appears in an array and then reorders the array based on those counts.
- coupling noun The degree of reliance between two or more software modules.
- courseware noun Educational software or documents in computerized form that facilitate course-based learning and teaching.
- covariable adj Possibly predictive of the outcome under study.
- covariance noun A statistical measure defined as scriptstyle operatorname Cov(X,Y)= operatorname E((X-μ)(Y-ν)) given two real-valued random variables X and…
- covariant adj Which preserves the order of morphism composition: formally, which associates each morphism f:X→Y to a morphism F(f):F(X)→F(Y).
- cover noun A collection (or family) of subsets of a given set, whose union contains every element of said original set.
- coverage analysis noun A part of computerised stock control that identifies the minimum stock needed to avoid shortage.
- covering noun A collection of sets U_i such that their union contains U; such a collection with the additional property that every U_i is open; such a…
- covering space noun The domain of a covering of a topological space; the covering together with its domain. (See Usage notes at covering).
- covert channel noun A means of transferring information objects between processes that are not supposed to be allowed to communicate according to the security…
- Cox ring noun A sort of universal homogeneous coordinate ring for a projective variety, and (roughly speaking) a direct sum of the spaces of sections of…
- Coxeter group noun Any of a class of groups whose finite cases are precisely the finite reflection groups (including the symmetry groups of polytopes), but…
- Coxeter-Dynkin diagram noun A graph with numerically labelled edges (called branches) representing the spatial relations between a collection of mirrors (or reflecting…
- cp noun Abbreviation of codepage.
- cpi noun The measure of characters that can be stored in each inch of magnetic tape
- CPU noun Initialism of central processing unit.
- CPU time noun The length of time that a central processing unit takes to process instructions for a particular program or task.
- crack noun A program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software.
- cracker noun One who cracks (i.e. overcomes) computer software or security restrictions.
- cracktro noun An intro added to a piece of cracked software, typically including visual effects and music and naming the group that did the cracking.
- Cramer's rule noun An explicit formula for the solution of a system of linear equations with as many equations as unknowns, valid whenever the system has a…
- Cramér-Rao bound noun A lower bound on the variance of unbiased estimators of a deterministic (fixed, though unknown) parameter.
- crapware noun Software that is useless or of poor quality.
- crash noun A malfunction of computer software or hardware which causes it to shut down or become partially or totally inoperable.
- crash out verb To terminate with an unhandled error; to crash.
- crash to desktop noun An event where a software program running on a computer with an operating system that features a graphical desktop unexpectedly terminates…
- crashable adj That can be crashed (made to malfunction and terminate).
- crashdump noun Synonym of core dump; a file holding the contents of memory at the point when a program crashed, possibly useful in debugging.
- crashproof adj Resistant to crashes (failure of software programs).
- crate noun In the Rust programming language, a binary or library.
- CRC noun Initialism of cyclic redundancy check.
- creative adj A type of set of natural numbers, related to mathematical logic.
- cred noun A credential.
- credal adj Describes a probability based on belief.
- credential stuffing noun A kind of cyberattack in which a large batch of account credentials stolen from one service are tried against another service in an attempt…
- credentials noun login data
- creeping elegance noun The tendency of programmers to disproportionately emphasize elegance in software at the expense of other requirements such as…
- creepware noun Software covertly installed on a computer or device to allow its operation to be monitored and thus spy on the user's activity.
- crib verb To use a known piece of information corresponding to a section of encrypted text, to work out the remaining sections.
- crippleware noun A program whose functionality is severely limited beyond that of shareware, often in the interest of its author having the crippleware user…
- crisp adj Not using fuzzy logic; based on a binary distinction between true and false.
- crispify verb To perform crispification upon.
- crisping noun A crisp, clearly-defined object that exists within a more vaguely defined object.
- critical point noun A point at which the derivative of a function is zero or undefined, such as a minimum, a maximum, a point of inflection or, in multivariate…
- critical section noun A piece of code that accesses a shared resource that must not be concurrently accessed by more than one thread of execution.
- croak verb To abort the current program indicating a user or caller error.
- crocodile noun A fallacious dilemma, mythically supposed to have been first used by a crocodile.
- cross section noun A sample meant to be representative of a whole population.
- cross tabulation noun A presentation of data about categorical variable in a tabular form to aid in identifying a relationship between the variables.
- cross term noun In a quadratic form, a term which is not a squared variable; i.e., a term with more than one variable.
- cross-platform adj Of software, etc., designed to work on various operating systems.
- cross-polytope noun A polytope that is the convex hull of points, two on each Cartesian axis of a Euclidean space, that are equidistant from the origin; an…
- cross-process adj Across more than one process; crossing a process boundary.
- cross-ratio noun A special number associated with an ordered quadruple of collinear points, particularly points on a projective line, and preserved by the…
- cross-thread adj Occurring across more than one thread of execution.
- cross-validation noun Any technique or instance of assessing how the results of a statistical analysis will generalize to an independent dataset.
- crosscut verb To affect several modules of a program, without the possibility of being encapsulated in any one of them. See Cross-cutting concern.
- crossgrade verb To upgrade (a software application) so that it is able to run on a different platform.
- crossing noun A pair of intersecting edges.
- crossing number noun The minimum, taken over all planar representations of a link or graph, of the number of times it crosses itself.
- crossover adj Configured so that the transmit signals at one end are connected to the receive signals at the other.
- crossover cable noun A cable, especially an Ethernet cable, that allows two devices of the same kind, such as two computers, to be connected directly.
- crosspost noun An instance of crossposting, or the post thus created.
- crossvalidated adj assessed via cross-validation
- crosswalk verb To map equivalent elements (fields) in different database schemas.
- crow's foot noun A symbol, resembling a bisected equilateral triangle, used in database diagrams to indicate plurality.
- crown noun The area enclosed between two concentric perimeters.
- crown graph noun An undirected graph with 2n vertices in the two sets { u₁, u₂, ..., uₙ } and { v₁, v₂, ..., vₙ } and with an edge from uᵢ to vⱼ whenever i…
- CRT noun Initialism of Chinese remainder theorem.
- crude adj Not adjusted or further analyzed.
- cruft verb To generate cruft.
- crufty adj Relating to or containing cruft.
- crunch noun The overtime work required to catch up and finish a project, usually in the final weeks of development before release.