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nilpotents

nilpotents is the plural of nilpotent.

Meaning of nilpotent

Noun

nilpotent (plural nilpotents)

  1. A nilpotent element.
    • The so-called spinor algebra of C(2), the language of the quantum mechanics, is formulated in terms of the idempotents and nilpotents of the geometric algebra of space, including its beautiful representation on the Riemann sphere, and a new proof of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.2015, Garret Sobczyk, “Part I: Vector Analysis of Spinors”, in arXiv

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Questions about nilpotents

What is nilpotents the plural of?
Nilpotents is the plural of nilpotent.

Words near nilpotents in the dictionary

  1. Nilphamari District
  2. nilpotence
  3. nilpotency
  4. nilpotent
  5. nilpotently
  6. nilpotents
  7. nilprogression
  8. nilprogressions
  9. nilradical
  10. nilradicals
  11. nils

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