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 36 of 103: from “fourgon” to “fuzzy”.
- fourgon noun A polygon with four sides; a quadrilateral.
- Fourier analysis noun A field of study concerned with the representation or approximation of general functions, such as arbitrary waveforms, by sums of…
- Fourier series noun Any series resulting from the decomposition of a periodic function into terms involving cosines and sines (or, equivalently, complex…
- Fourier transform noun A particular integral transform that when applied to a function of time (such as a signal), converts the function to one that plots the…
- Fourier-Mukai transform noun A functor Φ_K between derived category of coherent sheaves D(X) → D(Y) for schemes X and Y, which is, in a sense, an integral transform…
- foursquare noun A four-square cipher.
- fourth dimension noun The fourth coordinate indicating a position along the fourth axis.
- fourth normal form noun A stage in the normalization of a relational database in which a database is in Boyce-Codd normal form and all multi-valued dependencies…
- fractal noun A mathematical set that has a non-integer and constant Hausdorff dimension, corresponding to a geometric figure or object that is…
- fractile noun The value of a distribution for which some fraction of the sample lies below.
- fractional calculus noun The branch of mathematics that studies generalisations of calculus to allow noninteger (i.e., real or complex) powers of the…
- fractional ideal noun Given an integral domain R and its field of fractions K = Frac(R), an R-submodule I of K such that for some nonzero r∈R, rI ⊆ R.
- fractionary adj Having a common denominator.
- fractionate verb To divide each plaintext symbol into several ciphertext symbols as a preliminary stage of encryption.
- fractionation noun A preliminary stage of encryption that divides each plaintext symbol into several ciphertext symbols.
- fraggle attack noun A particular variation of the smurf attack, using UDP traffic bearing the victim's spoofed IP address sent to certain standard ports.
- fragment noun An incomplete portion of code.
- fragmentation noun The breaking up and dispersal of a file into non-contiguous areas of a disk.
- frame noun An independent chunk of data sent over a network.
- frame problem noun The problem of finding an adequate collection of axioms making up a viable description of the world for a robot or artificial intelligence.
- frame rate noun The measurement of how quickly an imaging device can produce unique consecutive images called frames, most often expressed in frames per…
- frame store noun Synonym of framebuffer
- framebuffer noun A video output device that drives a display from a memory buffer containing a complete frame of graphical data.
- frameless adj Without frames.
- frameproof adj Describing a specific type of code that cannot be exploited by a user claiming to have been framed by others.
- frameskip noun A software feature that skips the display of certain frames of animation to improve performance at the expense of visual smoothness.
- framestore noun Synonym of framebuffer.
- framework noun A reusable piece of code (and, sometimes, other utilities) providing a standard environment within which an application can be implemented.
- Frankenstein PC noun A custom-built or heavily repaired PC (type of computer) assembled from a mix of mismatched, repurposed, or discarded spare parts rather…
- frecency noun Any heuristic that combines the frequency and recency into a single measure, typically used to predict page revisits in a web browser.
- Fréchet derivative noun An extension of the concept of the derivative from real-valued functions of one real variable to functions on normed spaces.
- Fredholm theory noun A theory of integral equations, concerning itself in the narrowest sense with the solution of the Fredholm integral equation.
- free verb To relinquish (previously allocated memory) to the system.
- free Boolean algebra noun A field of sets whose elements are equivalent to Boolean formulas (or, perhaps more precisely, equivalence classes of Boolean formulas).…
- free category noun A category that is induced by a multidigraph thus: it has as its objects the vertices of the multidigraph and its morphisms are paths in…
- free group noun A group that has a presentation without relators; equivalently, a free product of some number of copies of ℤ.
- free list noun A data structure, used in dynamic memory allocation, that connects free (unallocated) regions of memory together in a linked list.
- free module noun A module that has a basis. Equivalently, a module consisting of n-tuples of ring elements with no extra identities. (Then the number n is…
- free monoid noun A monoid whose underlying set is the Kleene closure of some set of generators, and whose operator is concatenation.
- free product noun A group formed from others by concatenating their presentations (when those presentations are written with disjoint sets of generators).
- free software noun Software that can be freely copied, redistributed and modified, including source code; software that is libre.
- free store noun A region of memory used for dynamic memory allocation, often synonymous with the heap.
- free variable noun A variable that is not bound to a storage location.
- freebooting noun Software piracy, or stealing or unauthorized rehosting of digital content.
- freestanding adj Of a computer program: that runs directly on a computer's hardware, without being managed by an operating system.
- freeware noun Complete and functional software that does not require payment or other compensation (such as viewing advertising) for its use. Freeware…
- freeze noun The state when either a single computer program, or the whole system ceases to respond to inputs.
- freezer noun A hardware device that can freeze the state of the system to allow it to be inspected, saved or modified.
- frequency noun number of times an event occurred in an experiment (absolute frequency)
- frequency distribution noun a structured representation that summarizes how often values or categories occur within a dataset by organizing quantitative data into…
- frequency domain noun The analysis of mathematical functions or signals with respect to frequency, and possibly a phase, rather than time.
- frequentist noun An advocate of frequentism.
- frequently adv For infinitely many terms of the sequence.
- friable adj Of a number: smooth, that factors completely into small prime numbers.
- friend-to-friend adj Describing a restricted type of peer-to-peer network in which only persons who know each other participate.
- friendly adj Being or relating to two or more natural numbers with a common abundancy.
- friendly name noun The everyday name of a hardware device, displayed to the user instead of the internal or technical designation.
- frob verb To manipulate in some ill-defined way; to tweak or mess about with.
- Frobenioid noun A category with some extra structure that generalizes the theory of line bundles on models of finite extensions of global fields.
- Frobenius noun Used attributively to attribute a concept to the work of Ferdinand Georg Frobenius or more directly to associate it with the Frobenius…
- Frobenius covariant noun Any of a set of special polynomials for a square matrix A, namely projection matrices Aᵢ associated with the eigenvalues and eigenvectors…
- Frobenius endomorphism noun Given a commutative ring R with prime characteristic p, the endomorphism that maps x → xᵖ for all x ∈ R.
- Frölicher spectral sequence noun A tool in the theory of complex manifolds, for expressing the potential failure of the results of cohomology theory that are valid in…
- from prep Denoting a subtraction operation.
- front controller pattern noun A structural (and partitioning) design pattern that provides a centralized entry point for handling requests and is an extension to the…
- front door noun The normal portal page to a website.
- front end noun That part of a hardware or software system that is conceptually closest to the user; the user interface.
- front-end processor noun A small computer that interfaces with the host computer and handles operations such as network access or peripheral control.
- fsck noun A *nix file system check to detect damage to, or corruption of, files or filesystem structures.
- FTP verb To transfer using File Transfer Protocol.
- fuckings noun Public abuse directed at rival demosceners, often included in the scrolltext of a demo; the negative equivalent of greets.
- full adj Surjective as a map of morphisms
- full circle noun An arc of 360 degrees.
- full disclosure noun The disclosure of all security flaws in a product.
- full functor noun A functor which maps morphisms from its source to its target category in such a way that the restriction of that mapping to any source…
- full outer join noun A join yielding a set of records for two tables, where all rows of the "left" table are enlisted with all rows of the "right" table, even…
- full rank adj Having the highest possible rank for its size; having a rank (dimension) equal to the number of columns or the number of rows.
- fullwidth adj Of a text character, occupying the space of two alphanumeric characters in a monospace font, or two "normal" text columns.
- function noun A relation in which each element of the domain is associated with exactly one element of the codomain.
- function code noun Any character used to specify a function of a piece of software or hardware (such as carriage return of a printer)
- function key noun Any of a set of keys on a personal computer or terminal keyboard used to activate a predefined or programmable function, especially a…
- function table noun A printed tabulation of selected values of a function corresponding to selected independent variables; e.g. a table of logarithms.
- function value noun An element of the range of a function. (Or, employing the "machine" metaphor, it is one of the "outputs" of a function.)
- functional noun A function that takes a function as its argument; more precisely, a function whose argument varies in a space of (real- or complex-valued)…
- functional programming noun Programming in a style that, in lieu of assignment, uses procedure calls to bind variables to values, so that referential transparency is…
- functional requirement noun Any of the functions of a software system, described formally.
- functionalize verb To adapt into a form that uses functional programming.
- functoid noun A tool that transforms data from one form to another as it is routed from a source to a destination.
- functor noun A category homomorphism; a morphism from a source category to a target category which maps objects to objects and arrows to arrows (either…
- functor category noun A category whose objects are functors (from some fixed given domain category to some fixed given codomain category) and whose morphisms are…
- fundamental group noun For a specified topological space, the group whose elements are homotopy classes of loops (images of some arbitrary closed interval whose…
- fundamental theorem noun A theorem (or, in non-mathematical fields, a commonly accepted hypothesis) considered to be of central importance to a specified field.
- funicular adj Synonym of catenary.
- funnel plot noun A scatterplot of effect size against a measure of study size or variability, used primarily as a visual aid to detecting and displaying…
- fuse noun An otherwise stable arbitrarily long repeating pattern that, when perturbed from one end, destructively carries that perturbation at a…
- fusker noun A program or algorithm that downloads images or media from a web site that have not been publicly linked, based on guessing at similar URLs.
- futex noun A mechanism for basic locking, based on an atomic integer in userspace that may be operated upon from multiple processes or threads.
- future noun An object that retrieves the value of a promise.
- fuzz noun The random data used in fuzz testing.
- fuzzy adj Employing or relating to fuzzy logic.