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transitive sets

transitive sets is the plural of transitive set.

Meaning of transitive set

Noun

transitive set (plural transitive sets)

  1. Any set X such that for any x ∈ X, if y ∈ x then y ∈ X; equivalently, such that if x ∈ X and x is not an urelement then x ⊆ X.

Questions about transitive sets

What is transitive sets the plural of?
Transitive sets is the plural of transitive set.

Words near transitive sets in the dictionary

  1. transitive closure
  2. transitive closures
  3. transitive dependencies
  4. transitive dependency
  5. transitive set
  6. transitive sets
  7. transitive verb
  8. transitive verbs
  9. transitively
  10. transitiveness
  11. transitives

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