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submultiplicative

submultiplicative adjective: having the property ‖AB‖≤‖A‖‖B‖.

Adjective

submultiplicative (not comparable)

  1. Having the property ‖AB‖≤‖A‖‖B‖
    • The partition functions of these models may satisfy a variety of super- or submultiplicative inequalities, and these may be reduced to a subadditive relation by taking logarithms, and changing signs, if necessary.2016, EJ Janse van Rensburg, “Subadditivity in models of interacting lattice clusters”, in arXiv

Origin of submultiplicative

From sub- + multiplicative.

Questions about submultiplicative

What does submultiplicative mean?
Submultiplicative means having the property ‖AB‖≤‖A‖‖B‖.
What part of speech is submultiplicative?
Submultiplicative is an adjective.

Words near submultiplicative in the dictionary

  1. submucronated
  2. submultialgebra
  3. submultialgebras
  4. submultiple
  5. submultiples
  6. submultiplicative
  7. submultiset
  8. submultisets
  9. submundane
  10. submunicipal
  11. submunicipalities

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