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multiextremal

multiextremal adjective: having multiple extrema.

Adjective

multiextremal (not comparable)

  1. Having multiple extrema
    • Nature and evolutionary inspired metaheuristics are also not always successful in finding global solutions to these problems due to their multiextremal character.2015, Dmitri E. Kvasov, Yaroslav D. Sergeyev, “Deterministic approaches for solving practical black-box global optimization problems”, in Advances in Engineering Software, volume 2015, pages 58–66

Origin of multiextremal

From multi- + extremal.

Questions about multiextremal

What does multiextremal mean?
Multiextremal means having multiple extrema.
What part of speech is multiextremal?
Multiextremal is an adjective.

Words near multiextremal in the dictionary

  1. multiexperiment
  2. multiexponential
  3. multiexposure
  4. multiexposures
  5. multiextent
  6. multiextremal
  7. multieyed
  8. multiface
  9. multifaced
  10. multifaces
  11. multifacet

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