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multichain

multichain adjective: of or pertaining to more than one chain.

Adjective

multichain (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to more than one chain.
    • multichain polyamino acids
  2. Of a Markov chain, consisting of two or more closed sets of recurrent states plus (optionally) a set of states that do not belong to any of the closed sets.
    • multichain Markov chain
    Antonyms:
    unichain

Noun

multichain (plural multichains)

  1. A multichain Markov chain.
    • A multichain with transient states is called a reducible multichain.2016, Theodore J. Sheskin, Markov Chains and Decision Processes for Engineers and Managers, page 24
  2. An ordered subset of a poset; a generalization of a chain that allows inequalities that are not strict.

Antonyms of multichain

Forms of multichain

pluralmultichains

Origin of multichain

From multi- + chain.

Questions about multichain

What does multichain mean?
Multichain means of or pertaining to more than one chain.
What part of speech is multichain?
Multichain can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near multichain in the dictionary

  1. multicentred
  2. multicentric
  3. multicentrically
  4. multicentricity
  5. multicentury
  6. multichain
  7. multichains
  8. multichallenge
  9. multichallenger
  10. multichamber
  11. multichambered

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