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affinely independent

affinely independent adjective: said of a set of points in an affine space: the property that the vectors issuing from an arbitrarily chosen point to the rest of the points are linearly independent.

Adjective

affinely independent (not comparable)

  1. Said of a set of points in an affine space: the property that the vectors issuing from an arbitrarily chosen point to the rest of the points are linearly independent.

Questions about affinely independent

What does affinely independent mean?
Affinely independent means said of a set of points in an affine space: the property that the vectors issuing from an arbitrarily chosen point to the rest of the points are linearly independent.
What part of speech is affinely independent?
Affinely independent is an adjective.

Words near affinely independent in the dictionary

  1. affine transformations
  2. affine varieties
  3. affine variety
  4. affined
  5. affinely
  6. affinely independent
  7. affineness
  8. affines
  9. affineur
  10. affineurs
  11. affining

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