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postcompose

postcompose verb: to apply (an operation) after another operation has occurred.

Verb

postcompose (third-person singular simple present postcomposes, present participle postcomposing, simple past and past participle postcomposed)

  1. (transitive) To apply (an operation) after another operation has occurred.
    • If we postcompose the embedding ɩ with a dilation by a factor of t, the algebraic growth Γ will obviously not change but the group will be generated by loops of length λ(tɩL) = tλ (ɩL), implying that Γ_T(#P_(g1)( tɩ, T ) ) → ∞ as t→ 0.2022, Helmut Hofer, Alberto Abbondandolo, Urs Frauenfelder, Symplectic Geometry, page 64

Antonyms of postcompose

Forms of postcompose

third-person singular presentpostcomposes
present participlepostcomposing
past participlepostcomposed
pastpostcomposed

Origin of postcompose

From post- + compose.

Questions about postcompose

What does postcompose mean?
Postcompose means to apply (an operation) after another operation has occurred.
What part of speech is postcompose?
Postcompose is a verb.
What is the past tense of postcompose?
The past tense of postcompose is postcomposed.

Words near postcompose in the dictionary

  1. postcommunist
  2. postcommunists
  3. postcommute
  4. postcompetition
  5. postcompletion
  6. postcompose
  7. postcomposed
  8. postcomposes
  9. postcomposing
  10. postconception
  11. postconceptional

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