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subdirect

subdirect adjective: describing a subalgebra of a direct product.

Adjective

subdirect (not comparable)

  1. Describing a subalgebra of a direct product
    • We also show that the most general partially ordered plausibility calculus embeddable in a ring can be represented as a set of extended probability distributions or, in algebraic terms, is a subdirect sum of ordered fields.2015, Stefan Arnborg, Gunnar Sjödin, “What is the plausibility of probability?(revised 2003, 2015)”, in arXiv

Origin of subdirect

From sub- + direct.

Words formed from subdirect

Questions about subdirect

What does subdirect mean?
Subdirect means describing a subalgebra of a direct product.
What part of speech is subdirect?
Subdirect is an adjective.

Words near subdirect in the dictionary

  1. subdioecious
  2. subdioecy
  3. subdiploid
  4. subdiploidy
  5. subdir
  6. subdirect
  7. subdirectly
  8. subdirector
  9. subdirectories
  10. subdirectors
  11. subdirectory

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