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axiomatizing

axiomatizing is the present participle and gerund 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 axiomatizing

What is axiomatizing the present participle and gerund of?
Axiomatizing is the present participle and gerund of axiomatize.

Words near axiomatizing in the dictionary

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

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