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plactic

plactic adjective: based on all words in the alphabet of positive integers modulo Knuth equivalence.

Adjective

plactic (not comparable)

  1. Based on all words in the alphabet of positive integers modulo Knuth equivalence.
    • We obtain as a corollary that plactic monoids for any semisimple Lie algebra satisfy homological finiteness properties..2015, Nohra Hage, “Finite convergent presentations of plactic monoids for semisimple lie algebras”, in arXiv

Origin of plactic

From French plaxique.

Words formed from plactic

Questions about plactic

What does plactic mean?
Plactic means based on all words in the alphabet of positive integers modulo Knuth equivalence.
What part of speech is plactic?
Plactic is an adjective.

Words near plactic in the dictionary

  1. placozoa
  2. placozoan
  3. placozoans
  4. placozoon
  5. placque
  6. plactic
  7. placula
  8. placulae
  9. placunid
  10. placunids
  11. pladdies

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