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axiomatizes

axiomatizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of axiomatize.

Meaning of axiomatize

Verb

axiomatize (third-person singular simple present axiomatizes, present participle axiomatizing, simple past and past participle axiomatized)

  1. To establish a set of axioms that describe or govern certain phenomena
    • For toposes were invented by Grothendieck in the sixties for specific purposes in algebraic geometry and algebraic topology. Later on, Lawvere and Tierney [11] axiomatized the notion of an elementary topos with the goal of providing an appropriate foundation for differential geometry.1998, Jean-Pierre Marquis, “Book Review: Colin McLarty. Elementary Categories, Elementary Toposes.”, in Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, volume 39, number 3, page 441

Questions about axiomatizes

What is axiomatizes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Axiomatizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of axiomatize.

Words near axiomatizes in the dictionary

  1. axiomatizable
  2. axiomatization
  3. axiomatizations
  4. axiomatize
  5. axiomatized
  6. axiomatizes
  7. axiomatizing
  8. axiomesial
  9. axiomic
  10. axiomization
  11. axiomizations

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