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 30 of 103: from “elementary cellular automaton” to “epimorphic”.
- elementary cellular automaton noun A one-dimensional, two-state cellular automaton in which a cell's state in the next generation depends only on its current state and the…
- elementary equivalence noun A relation between two structures which have the property that every first-order formula is valid in one structure if and only if it is…
- elementary function noun Any function that is composed of algebraic functions, trigonometric functions, exponential functions and/or logarithmic functions, combined…
- elementary matrix noun A square matrix which is obtained from the identity matrix by a single elementary row (or column) operation.
- elementary spaceship noun Any spaceship, either naturally occurring or found with the aid of computer programs, that cannot be usefully analyzed as consisting of…
- elench noun That part of an argument on which its conclusiveness depends; that which convinces or refutes an antagonist; a refutation.
- elevate verb To temporarily grant a program additional security privileges to the system to perform a privileged action (usually on the program's…
- elevated adj Running with administrator rights.
- eliminant noun A resultant.
- elimination noun The act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation; especially, in the operation of deducing from several equations containing…
- ellipse noun A closed curve, the locus of a point such that the sum of the distances from that point to two other fixed points (called the foci of the…
- ellipsis noun A mark consisting of multiple full stops (with or without spaces), used to indicate omitted, missing, or illegible words; or (in…
- ellipsoid noun A surface, all of whose cross sections are elliptic or circular (including the sphere), that generalises the ellipse and in Cartesian…
- ellipsoidal adj Of or pertaining to an ellipsoid.
- elliptic adj Of or pertaining to an ellipse.
- elliptic curve noun The algebraic set of an equation which equates the square of one variable to a reduced cubic polynomial in another variable, over some…
- elliptic paraboloid noun A surface having parabolic cross sections parallel to an axis and elliptical cross sections perpendicular to the axis; especially the…
- elliptical adj Elliptic.
- ellipticity noun A measure of this flattening that is a function of the ellipse's equatorial and polar radii
- elliptope noun The set of all real, square symmetric matrices whose diagonal entries are all equal to one and whose eigenvalues are all non-negative.
- elongated adj Of a polyhedron, having been modified by placing a prism in the middle of the polyhedron.
- Elvis noun An Elvis operator.
- Elvis operator noun A binary operator that returns its first operand if that operand evaluates to true, and otherwise evaluates and returns its second operand.
- em noun A relative unit of sizing defined in terms of the font size.
- email noun A system for sending messages and datas by means of a computer network, primarily the Internet, using the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol and…
- email storm noun A sudden spike in emails within an email list, usually caused by thousands of individuals sending reply all emails within a short period of…
- emailware noun Software whose users are encouraged to send the creator an e-mail message in lieu of payment or registration.
- emanant noun The result of operating any number of times upon a quantic with the operator (x'd/dx + y'd/dy + ... + z'd/dz).
- embed verb To encapsulate within another document or data file.
- embedded adj Not minimal with respect to inclusion (among associated primes), i.e. having a proper sub-ideal which is an associated prime.
- embedded system noun A computer system with a dedicated function within a larger mechanical or electrical system, often with real-time computing constraints.
- embedding noun A continuous map which is also a homeomorphism between its domain and its image (considered with the subspace topology induced by its…
- emirp noun A prime number that becomes a different prime when its decimal digits (or digits in some specified other base) are reversed.
- emit verb To result in specific machine instructions or bytecode when compiled.
- emoji flag sequence noun An emoji sequence, consisting of a country code encoded using regional indicator characters, and representing a particular country or…
- emoji sequence noun A combination of characters that display a particular emoji.
- emoji ZWJ sequence noun A combination of emoji and control characters to display a particular emoji on supported operating systems.
- empty adj Containing no elements (as of a string, array, or set), opposed to being null (having no valid value).
- emulable adj That can be emulated.
- emulate verb of a program or device: to imitate another program or device
- emulation noun Execution of a program or other software designed for a different system, by simulating parts of the other system.
- emulator noun A piece of software or hardware that simulates another system.
- emuscene noun The subculture or community of people who use emulators to simulate the operation of one computer system on another.
- enable verb To activate, to make operational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device).
- enabled adj Adapted for use with the specified mechanism or system.
- enaction noun The interpretation of consciousness or understanding as a process of meaningfully engaging and interacting with the world in a hierarchy of…
- encapsulate verb To enclose objects in a common interface in a way that makes them interchangeable, and guards their states from invalid changes.
- encapsulation noun Grouping together an object’s ‘state’ (its data) and the operations that may alter or interrogate it (its methods).
- enclave noun An isolated portion of an application's address space, such that data in an enclave can only be accessed by code in the same enclave.
- encloser noun An object, procedure, or other portion of code that defines the scope of a variable.
- enclosing adj Of a region, containing all points of a given set within its bounds.
- encoding noun The way in which symbols are mapped onto bytes, e.g. in the rendering of a particular font, or in the mapping from keyboard input into…
- encrypt verb To transform information using encryption in a way that it is believed only authorized parties can decode.
- encryption noun The process of obscuring information to make it unreadable without special knowledge, key files, or passwords.
- end noun An ideal point of a graph or other complex. See End (graph theory)
- endian adj Preceded by a qualifying word: of a computer: storing multibyte numbers with the most significant byte at a particular memory address; for…
- endif noun A directive, in several programming languages, that marks the end of an if statement, especially one containing multiple if ... then ...…
- endomorphism noun A homomorphism that maps a system to itself.
- endpoint noun The entity at one end of a connection.
- engine noun A software or hardware system responsible for a specific technical task (usually with qualifying word).
- engineered spaceship noun Any spaceship, often a large one, made of discrete parts that is designed through human effort, often through the aid of computer programs…
- engineering sample noun A non-final version of an integrated circuit meant for product development, validation, or demonstration purposes.
- enneagram noun A nine-pointed stellate polygon
- enneakis- prefix A variant of ennea-, used for multiplication with a second numerical prefix.
- ENOTUITS intj A fictitious error code indicating that a person has run out of round tuits (i.e. they don't have any time to spare on the task being…
- enregister verb To store in a register of the CPU.
- ensemble noun A probability distribution for the state of the system.
- enter noun Alternative spelling of Enter (“the computer key”).
- enterprise application integration noun The use of software and computer systems architectural principles to integrate a set of enterprise computer applications.
- enterprise architecture noun the disposition and interrelationship of all the management, information and computing systems within an organization
- enterprisey adj Of, pertaining to, or resembling the sort of software that would be developed for a large commercial enterprise.
- enthymeme noun A syllogism with a required but unstated assumption.
- entire adj Complex-differentiable on all of ℂ.
- entitize verb To convert a character into a character entity reference.
- entity noun Anything about which information or data can be stored in a database; in particular, one item in an organised array or set of individual…
- entity alignment noun The process of identifying entities that refer to the same real-world object in different knowledge bases.
- Entity Bean noun A type of Enterprise JavaBean, a server-side Java EE component that represents persistent data stored in a database.
- entity tag noun In the HTTP protocol, an identifier assigned to a version of a resource, such that if the resource’s content changes, it is given a new…
- entourage noun A binary relation in a uniform space which generalises the notion of two points being no farther apart than a given fixed distance; a…
- entrain verb To set up or propagate (a signal), such as an oscillation.
- entropy noun Shannon entropy
- entry noun A term at any position in a matrix.
- entry point noun A location in a program or software library that can be called from outside, and from which the execution of code begins.
- Entscheidungsproblem noun A decision problem of finding a way to decide whether a formula is true or provable within a given system.
- enumerated adj Defined to consist of a specified list of possible values.
- enumeration noun A data type that allows variables to have any of a predefined set of values.
- envelope noun A mathematical curve, surface, or higher-dimensional object that is the tangent to a given family of lines, curves, surfaces, or…
- environment noun The software or hardware existing on any particular computer system.
- environment division noun The part of a COBOL program that specifies the hardware on which it is designed to run, the symbolic names to be used by files, and certain…
- environmental noun Any factor relating to the physical environment in which hardware is operated, such as the room temperature or the number of racks used to…
- epagoge noun The adducing of particular examples so as to lead to a universal conclusion; the argument by induction.
- ephemeron noun A type of weak reference in a garbage collected programming language that does not permit an object to be kept alive by its finalizer.
- epic noun A large or extended user story.
- epichirema noun A syllogism in which the proof of the major or minor premise, or both, is introduced with the premises themselves, and the conclusion is…
- epichireme noun A dialectical inference; a syllogism based on probable premises (endoxa), as opposed to a philosopheme which is a demonstrative or…
- epicycle noun Any circle whose circumference rolls around that of another circle, thus creating a hypocycloid or epicycloid.
- epicycloid noun The locus of a point on the circumference of a circle that rolls without slipping on the circumference of another circle.
- epigraph noun The set of all points lying on or above the function's graph.
- epilogue noun A component of a computer program that prepares the computer to return from a routine.
- epimorphic adj Relating to an epimorphism.