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symmetric groups

symmetric groups is the plural of symmetric group.

Meaning of symmetric group

Noun

symmetric group (plural symmetric groups)

  1. A group whose elements are precisely all of the bijections of some set with itself and whose operation is composition of those bijections.

Questions about symmetric groups

What is symmetric groups the plural of?
Symmetric groups is the plural of symmetric group.

Words near symmetric groups in the dictionary

  1. symmetric difference
  2. symmetric differences
  3. symmetric function
  4. symmetric functions
  5. symmetric group
  6. symmetric groups
  7. symmetric matrices
  8. symmetric matrix
  9. symmetric matrixes
  10. symmetric polynomial
  11. symmetric polynomials

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