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semihereditary

semihereditary adjective: of a ring: hereditary for finitely generated submodules.

Adjective

semihereditary (not comparable)

  1. Of a ring: hereditary for finitely generated submodules.
    • The classical ring of quotients of a commutative Bezout ring is a (von Neumann) regular local ring if and only if R is a commutative semihereditary local ring.2016, Bohdan Zabavsky, “Type conditions of stable range for identification of qualitative generalized classes of rings”, in arXiv

Origin of semihereditary

From semi- + hereditary.

Questions about semihereditary

What does semihereditary mean?
Semihereditary means of a ring: hereditary for finitely generated submodules.
What part of speech is semihereditary?
Semihereditary is an adjective.

Words near semihereditary in the dictionary

  1. semihemidemisemiquaver
  2. semihemidemisemiquavers
  3. semihemisphere
  4. semihemispheres
  5. semihemispherical
  6. semihereditary
  7. semiheroic
  8. semiheuristic
  9. semihexagon
  10. semihexagonal
  11. semihexagons

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