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cosets

cosets is the plural of coset.

Meaning of coset

Noun

coset (plural cosets)

  1. The set that results from applying a group's binary operation with a given fixed element of the group on each element of a given subgroup.
    • 1970 [Addison Wesley], Frederick W. Byron, Robert W. Fuller, Mathematics of Classical and Quantum Physics, Volumes 1-2, Dover, 1992, page 597,
      Theorem 10.5. The collection consisting of an invariant subgroup H and all its distinct cosets is itself a group, called the factor group of G, usually...

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What is cosets the plural of?
Cosets is the plural of coset.

Words near cosets in the dictionary

  1. Cosentinos
  2. Cosenza
  3. Cosenzas
  4. coses
  5. coset
  6. cosets
  7. cosettler
  8. cosettlers
  9. cosexual
  10. cosexuality
  11. cosexuals

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