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MATHEMATICAL RELATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A relation between mathematical expressions (such as equality or inequality)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("mathematical relation" is a kind of...):
relation (an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together)
Domain category:
math; mathematics; maths (a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mathematical relation"):
function; map; mapping; mathematical function; single-valued function ((mathematics) a mathematical relation such that each element of a given set (the domain of the function) is associated with an element of another set (the range of the function))
parity ((mathematics) a relation between a pair of integers: if both integers are odd or both are even they have the same parity; if one is odd and the other is even they have different parity)
transitivity ((logic and mathematics) a relation between three elements such that if it holds between the first and second and it also holds between the second and third it must necessarily hold between the first and third)
reflexiveness; reflexivity ((logic and mathematics) a relation such that it holds between an element and itself)
