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postcomposing

postcomposing is the present participle and gerund of postcompose.

Meaning of postcompose

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

Questions about postcomposing

What is postcomposing the present participle and gerund of?
Postcomposing is the present participle and gerund of postcompose.

Words near postcomposing in the dictionary

  1. postcompetition
  2. postcompletion
  3. postcompose
  4. postcomposed
  5. postcomposes
  6. postcomposing
  7. postconception
  8. postconceptional
  9. postconceptionally
  10. postconceptive
  11. postconceptual

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