Word.ws English Dictionary

supermodular

supermodular adjective: having the property that f(x∨y)+f(x∧y)≥f(x)+f(y) for all x, y isin Rᵏ, where x ∨ y denotes the componentwise maximum and x ∧ y the componentwise minimum of x and y.

Adjective

supermodular (not comparable)

  1. having the property that f(x∨y)+f(x∧y)≥f(x)+f(y) for all x, y isin Rᵏ, where x ∨ y denotes the componentwise maximum and x ∧ y the componentwise minimum of x and y.

Antonyms of supermodular

Origin of supermodular

From super- + modular.

Questions about supermodular

What does supermodular mean?
Supermodular means having the property that f(x∨y)+f(x∧y)≥f(x)+f(y) for all x, y isin Rᵏ, where x ∨ y denotes the componentwise maximum and x ∧ y the componentwise minimum of x and y.
What part of speech is supermodular?
Supermodular is an adjective.

Words near supermodular in the dictionary

  1. supermodernism
  2. supermodest
  3. supermodified
  4. supermodifieds
  5. supermods
  6. supermodular
  7. supermodularity
  8. supermodulation
  9. supermodulations
  10. supermodule
  11. supermodules

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: supermodular (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-supermodular.wav.

Cite this entry: “supermodular.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/supermodular. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.