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subfans

subfans is the plural of subfan.

Meaning of subfan

Noun

subfan (plural subfans)

  1. A subset of a fan (part of a tree).
    • The problem is motivated by the wish to compute tropical varieties over the p-adic numbers, which are the intersection of a subfan of a Gr\"obner fan as studied in this paper by some affine hyperplane, as shown in a forthcoming paper..2015, Thomas Markwig, Yue Ren, “Gröbner Fans of x-homogeneous Ideals in Rt[x]”, in arXiv

Questions about subfans

What is subfans the plural of?
Subfans is the plural of subfan.

Words near subfans in the dictionary

  1. subfamilies
  2. subfamily
  3. subfan
  4. subfandom
  5. subfandoms
  6. subfans
  7. subfascial
  8. subfasciculate
  9. subfastigiate
  10. subfastigiately
  11. subfault

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