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Tamari lattice

Tamari lattice noun: a partially ordered set in which the elements consist of different ways of grouping a sequence of objects into pairs using parentheses (e.g. for a sequence of four objects abcd, the five possible groupings are ((ab)c)d, (ab)(cd), (a(bc))d, a((bc)d), and a(b(cd))).

Noun

Tamari lattice (plural Tamari lattices)

  1. A partially ordered set in which the elements consist of different ways of grouping a sequence of objects into pairs using parentheses (e.g. for a sequence of four objects abcd, the five possible groupings are ((ab)c)d, (ab)(cd), (a(bc))d, a((bc)d), and a(b(cd))).

Forms of Tamari lattice

pluralTamari lattices

Origin of Tamari lattice

Introduced by Dov Tamari (1962).

Questions about Tamari lattice

What does Tamari lattice mean?
Tamari lattice means a partially ordered set in which the elements consist of different ways of grouping a sequence of objects into pairs using parentheses (e.g. for a sequence of four objects abcd, the five possible groupings are ((ab)c)d, (ab)(cd), (a(bc))d, a((bc)d), and a(b(cd))).
What part of speech is Tamari lattice?
Tamari lattice is a noun.
What is the plural of Tamari lattice?
The plural of Tamari lattice is Tamari lattices.

Words near Tamari lattice in the dictionary

  1. tamarau
  2. tamaraus
  3. tamaraw
  4. tamaraws
  5. tamari
  6. Tamari lattice
  7. Tamari lattices
  8. tamaric
  9. tamaricaceous
  10. tamarics
  11. tamarillo

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