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Scott-continuous

Scott-continuous adjective: given two partially ordered sets P and Q, a function f: P → Q between them is Scott-continuous if it preserves all directed suprema.

Adjective

Scott-continuous (not comparable)

  1. Given two partially ordered sets P and Q, a function f: P → Q between them is Scott-continuous if it preserves all directed suprema.

Origin of Scott-continuous

Named after the mathematician Dana Scott.

Questions about Scott-continuous

What does Scott-continuous mean?
Scott-continuous means given two partially ordered sets P and Q, a function f: P → Q between them is Scott-continuous if it preserves all directed suprema.
What part of speech is Scott-continuous?
Scott-continuous is an adjective.

Words near Scott-continuous in the dictionary

  1. Scott topologies
  2. Scott topology
  3. Scott's Green
  4. Scott's spleenwort
  5. Scott's trick
  6. Scott-continuous
  7. Scott-open
  8. Scotten
  9. Scotter
  10. Scotti
  11. Scottian

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