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-adic

-adic suffix: having a specified adicity.

Suffix

-adic

  1. Having a specified adicity.
    Synonyms:
    -ary
  2. (combined with a symbol (here I but also often p, m, or a) representing an ideal of R) Such that the sets x+Iⁿᴹ (where x∈M, n a non-negative integer) form a basis for the topology.

Synonyms of -adic

Origin of -adic

Back-formation from monadic, etc., from Ancient Greek -άς (-ás) (genitive -άδος (-ádos)) + -ικός (-ikós) (English -ad + -ic). Compare related adicity and Latinate -ary. The algebraic sense is by analogy with p-adic, since ℤ₍ₚ₎ equipped with the (p)-adic topology passes to the ring of p-adic numbers under the operation of completion.

Questions about -adic

What does -adic mean?
-adic means having a specified adicity.
What part of speech is -adic?
-adic is a suffix.

Words near -adic in the dictionary

  1. -ad
  2. -ade
  3. -adelic
  4. -adenia
  5. -ades
  6. -adic
  7. -adol
  8. -adol-
  9. -ads
  10. -ae
  11. -aemia

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