Word.ws English Dictionary

plethysm

plethysm noun: a particular group-theoretic operation on a set of functions of a given symmetry type.

Noun

plethysm (plural plethysms)

  1. A particular group-theoretic operation on a set of functions of a given symmetry type.
    • Motivated by questions of Mulmuley and Stanley we investigate quasi-polynomials arising in formulas for plethysm.2015, Thomas Kahle, Mateusz Michalek, “Obstructions to combinatorial formulas for plethysm”, in arXiv

Forms of plethysm

pluralplethysms

Questions about plethysm

What does plethysm mean?
Plethysm means a particular group-theoretic operation on a set of functions of a given symmetry type.
What part of speech is plethysm?
Plethysm is a noun.
What is the plural of plethysm?
The plural of plethysm is plethysms.

Words near plethysm in the dictionary

  1. plethra
  2. plethron
  3. plethrum
  4. plethymographic
  5. plethymography
  6. plethysm
  7. plethysmogram
  8. plethysmograms
  9. plethysmograph
  10. plethysmographic
  11. plethysmographical

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: plethysm (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-plethysm.wav.

Cite this entry: “plethysm.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/plethysm. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.