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sofic

sofic adjective: whose Cayley graph is an initially subamenable graph.

Adjective

sofic (not comparable)

  1. Whose Cayley graph is an initially subamenable graph.
  2. Whose forbidden words form a regular language.
    • a sofic subshift

Origin of sofic

Coined by mathematician Benjamin Weiss in 1973, based on Hebrew סופי (“finite”).

Words formed from sofic

Questions about sofic

What does sofic mean?
Sofic means whose Cayley graph is an initially subamenable graph.
What part of speech is sofic?
Sofic is an adjective.

Words near sofic in the dictionary

  1. soffrittos
  2. Sofi
  3. Sofia
  4. Sofian
  5. Sofians
  6. sofic
  7. soficity
  8. sofies
  9. sofiite
  10. Sofis
  11. Sofism

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