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 37 of 103: from “fuzzy logic” to “gig”.
- fuzzy logic noun A form of reasoning, derived from fuzzy set theory, whereby a truth value need not be exactly zero (false) or one (true), but rather can be…
- fuzzy math noun A form of logic based on the concept of a fuzzy set.
- fuzzy measure noun A kind of generalized measure in which the additive property is replaced by the weaker property of monotonicity.
- fuzzy search noun A type of search algorithm that includes results similar to the query (but not necessarily exactly matching), such as words with similar…
- fuzzyism noun Of a state or condition pertaining to fuzzy math.
- G-buffer noun A screen space representation of geometry and material information, generated by an intermediate rendering pass in deferred shading…
- Gabor atom noun A kind of function used in the analysis proposed by Dennis Gabor in 1946 in which a family of functions is built from translations and…
- Gabor transform noun A special case of the short-time Fourier transform, used to determine the sinusoidal frequency and phase content of local sections of a…
- Gabor wavelet noun A form of wavelet designed so as to minimize the product of its standard deviations in the time and frequency domain.
- gadget noun A technique for converting a part of one problem to an equivalent part of another problem, used in constructing reductions.
- gallery noun A browsable collection of images, font styles, etc.
- Galois connection noun A type of correspondence between partially ordered sets (posets), also applicable to preordered sets.
- Galois extension noun An algebraic extension that is both a normal and a separable extension; equivalently, an algebraic extension E/F such that the fixed field…
- Galois theory noun The branch of mathematics dealing with Galois groups, Galois fields, and polynomial equations. It provides a link between field theory and…
- gambler's ruin noun The fact that a gambler playing a game with negative expected value will eventually go broke, regardless of the betting system used.
- game of chance noun A game in which the outcome is at least partly determined by random variables (chance and luck) rather than strictly by strategy.
- game theory noun A branch of applied mathematics that studies strategic situations in which individuals or organisations choose various actions in an…
- gamma noun The Gamma function, symbolized by Γ.
- gamma correction noun A nonlinear operation used to encode and decode luminance or tristimulus values in video or still image systems.
- gamma distribution noun Any of a family of two-parameter continuous probability distributions, of which the common exponential distribution and chi-square…
- gamma function noun A meromorphic function which generalizes the notion of factorial to complex numbers and has singularities at the nonpositive integers; any…
- gammoid noun A certain kind of matroid, describing sets of vertices that can be reached by vertex-disjoint paths in a directed graph.
- gap buffer noun A dynamic array that allows efficient insertion and deletion operations clustered near the same location.
- garbage noun Allocated memory which is no longer in use but has not yet been deallocated.
- garbage collect verb To reclaim resources which are no longer in use; to run a garbage collector.
- garbage collected adj Featuring garbage collection.
- garbage collection noun An automatic mechanism that frees up resources (such as allocated memory) that are no longer in use.
- garbage collector noun An algorithm, procedure or thread dedicated to garbage collection: reclaiming resources which are no longer in use.
- garbage in, garbage out proverb If input data are not complete, accurate, and timely, then the resulting output is unreliable and useless. If the input is junk, then the…
- Garden of Eden noun A pattern that can only exist as an initial state and is not attainable from any other state.
- gate noun A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
- gatekeeper noun A provider of core platform services with specific characteristics (Regulation (EU) 2022/1925 of the European Parliament and of the Council)
- gateway noun In wireless internet, an access point with additional software capabilities such as providing NAT and DHCP, which may also provide VPN…
- gatewaying noun The action or use of a gateway or access point; the connection or transmission using one or more gateways.
- gating noun The control of the flow of signals based on certain conditions or criteria.
- gauche adj Skewed, not plane.
- gauge noun A semi-norm; a function that assigns a non-negative size to all vectors in a vector space.
- Gauss map noun A map from a given oriented surface in Euclidean space to the unit sphere which maps each point on the surface to a unit vector orthogonal…
- Gauss-Codazzi equation noun Any of a group of fundamental formulas in Riemannian and pseudo-Riemannian geometry that link together the induced metric and second…
- Gaussian adj Of or pertaining to Carl Friedrich Gauss.
- Gaussian function noun A function of the form f(x)=a· exp (-((x-b)²)/(2c²)) for arbitrary real-number constants a, b and non-zero c; used in statistics, signal…
- Gaussian moat noun The maximum difference between consecutive numbers in a sequence of distinct Gaussian prime numbers.
- Gaussian prime noun A Gaussian integer a + bi such that either one of a, b is zero and the absolute value of the other is a prime number of the form 4n + 3…
- Gaussianity noun The condition of being Gaussian.
- gem noun A package containing programs or libraries for the Ruby programming language.
- general availability noun A release of software which is good enough to be made available outside the originating company, to the general public.
- general linear group noun For given field F and order n, the group of invertible n×n matrices, with the group operation of matrix multiplication.
- generalization noun A proof, axiom, problem, or definition that includes another's cases, and also some additional cases; a conclusion reached by inferring…
- generalized continuum hypothesis noun The hypothesis that, for each ordinal α, there is no cardinal number strictly between א_α and 2^(א_α), i.e. 2^(א_α)=א_(α+1).
- generant adj acting as a generant.
- generate verb To form a figure from a curve or solid.
- generating function noun A formal power series with one indeterminate, whose coefficients encode a sequence that can be studied by algebraic manipulation of the…
- generation noun The formation or production of any geometrical magnitude, as a line, a surface, a solid, by the motion, in accordance with a mathematical…
- generator noun An element of a group that is used in the presentation of the group: one of the elements from which the others can be inferred with the…
- generic adj Of a procedure, written so as to operate on any data type, the type required being passed as a parameter.
- generic programming noun A style of computer programming in which algorithms are written in terms of to-be-specified-later types that are then instantiated when…
- generic property noun A property that is true almost everywhere in a given set (i.e., the set of points at which the property is not true is either of measure…
- genericize verb To make more generic: to be usable in more contexts.
- generics noun The use of templates, etc., to create generic source code that can be used in many situations.
- generification noun The process of making generic; the conversion to use generics.
- genetic memory noun An artificial neural network combination of genetic algorithm and the mathematical model of sparse distributed memory.
- genetic programming noun A search heuristic that explores the space of computer programs and is based on biological evolution.
- genned in adj Having had certain characteristics generated or installed.
- genome assembly noun The process of taking a large number of short DNA sequences and putting them back together to create a representation of the original…
- genon noun A branch cut between two complex planes.
- genus noun A natural number representing any of several related measures of the complexity of a given manifold or graph.
- geo-blocking noun The use of geolocation software to deny access to content to users from certain regions or countries.
- geodesic noun The shortest curve between two points on a specific surface.
- geodesicity noun The property of a smooth curve being a geodesic or of a vector field to be geodesic in the context of differential geometry.
- geofacet noun A technique for visualising data for a range of geographic regions, in which a series of identically-sized plots (for instance, bar charts)…
- geofence noun A virtual perimeter around a geographic area, typically enforced by monitoring the positions of trackable mobile devices inside or outside…
- geometric analysis noun A branch of mathematics in which techniques from differential geometry are used in the analysis and solution of partial differential…
- geometric mean noun A measure of central tendency of a set of n values computed by extracting the nth root of the product of the values.
- geometric pen noun A configurable drawing tool for creating lines that has a width specified in logical units, as opposed to device units (pixels), and…
- geometric progression noun A sequence in which each term except the first is obtained from the previous by multiplying it by a constant value, known as the common…
- geometric series noun Any infinite series whose terms are in geometric progression; any series of the form a+ar+ar²+ar³⋯=a∑ᵢ₌₀ ᪲rⁱ, where a≠0, r≠0, and r≠1.
- geometrization noun The description of a space as a geometry.
- geometry noun The branch of mathematics dealing with spatial relationships.
- geometry of numbers noun The subbranch of number theory which applies techniques from geometry to the study of algebraic numbers.
- geometry shader noun A type of shader that can process three-dimensional model geometry, for example by turning one primitive into another.
- georestriction noun The deliberate limitation of a (digital) product or service so that it is only available to users in certain geographic regions.
- geospatial adj Describing the combination of spatial software and geographic data.
- gerbe noun An abstract construction in homological algebra and geometry providing a certain type of generalisation for a sheaf.
- Gergonne point noun A certain triangle center. Given a triangle ∆ABC and its Gergonne triangle (with the touchpoint opposite A denoted by T_A, etc.), the…
- germ noun An equivalence class that includes a specified function defined in an open neighborhood.
- gesture noun A motion made with a pointing device, or on a touchscreen, that is recognised by the system as a command.
- Gevrey class noun The Gevrey classes on a domain #92;Omega#92;subseteq#92;Rⁿ are spaces of functions 'between' the space of analytic functions…
- GGEV noun A routine in LAPACK for computing eigenvalues.
- ghost verb To gray out (a visual element) to indicate that it is unavailable.
- ghost character noun A kanji included erroneously in the JIS X 0208 character set (not traceable to the sources used to compile JIS X 0208).
- ghost image noun A copy of all the contents of a hard drive, used as a backup.
- ghost imaging noun The process of creating a ghost image of all the contents of a hard drive as a backup that may be stored and later retrieved if needed.
- ghosting noun Ghost imaging.
- gi noun Initialism of global illumination.
- giant noun An Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes.
- Gibbs measure noun A generalization of the canonical ensemble to infinite systems, giving the probability of a given system being in a given state (or…
- Gibbs sampling noun A Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm for obtaining a sequence of observations which are approximated from a specified multivariate…
- Gibbs state noun An equilibrium probability distribution which remains invariant under future evolution of the system.
- GIF noun A bitmap image in a particular format with support for multiple images per file or animations, and up to 256 distinct colors per frame…
- gig noun Clipping of gigabyte (“one billion (1,000,000,000) bytes”).