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equal
English
Alternative forms
- æqual (archaic), æquall (archaic)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin aequ?lis, of unknown origin. Doublet of egal.
Pronunciation
- enPR: ?k'w?l, IPA(key): /?i?kw?l/
- Rhymes: -i?kw?l
Adjective
equal (not generally comparable, comparative more equal, superlative most equal)
- (not comparable) The same in all respects.
- 1705, George Cheyne, The Philosophical Principles of Religion Natural and Revealed
- They who are not disposed to receive them may let them alone or reject them; it is equal to me.
- 1705, George Cheyne, The Philosophical Principles of Religion Natural and Revealed
- (mathematics, not comparable) Exactly identical, having the same value.
- (obsolete) Fair, impartial.
- Are not my ways equal?
- (comparable) Adequate; sufficiently capable or qualified.
- 1881, Jane Austen, Emma, page 311
- her comprehension was certainly more equal to the covert meaning, the superior intelligence, of those five letters so arranged.
- much less is it in my power to make my commendations equal to your merits.
- 1842, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Threnody
- […] whose voice an equal messenger / Conveyed thy meaning mild.
- 1881, Jane Austen, Emma, page 311
- (obsolete) Not variable; equable; uniform; even.
- an equal temper
- (music) Intended for voices of one kind only, either all male or all female; not mixed.
Usage notes
- In mathematics, this adjective can be used in phrases like "A and B are equal", "A is equal to B", and, less commonly, "A is equal with B".
- The most common comparative use is the ironic expression more equal.
Synonyms
- (the same in all respects): identical
- (the same in all relevant respects): equivalent
- (unvarying): even, fair, uniform, unvarying
Translations
Verb
equal (third-person singular simple present equals, present participle (Commonwealth) equalling or (US) equaling, simple past and past participle (Commonwealth) equalled or (US) equaled)
- (mathematics, copulative) To be equal to, to have the same value as; to correspond to.
- (transitive) To make equivalent to; to cause to match.
- (informal) To have as its consequence.
Synonyms
- (to be equal to): be, is
- (informal, have as its consequence): entail, imply, lead to, mean, result in, spell
Translations
Noun
equal (plural equals)
- A person or thing of equal status to others.
- Those who were once his equals envy and defame him.
- (obsolete) State of being equal; equality.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)
Synonyms
- (person or thing of equal status to others): peer
Derived terms
Related terms
- equality
Translations
Anagrams
- Quale, quale, queal
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supremum
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin supremum.
Noun
supremum (plural suprema)
- (set theory) (real analysis): Given a subset X of R, the smallest real number that is ? every element of X; (order theory): given a subset X of a partially ordered set P (with partial order ?), the least element y of P such that every element of X is ? y.
- 2006, Charalambos D. Aliprantis, Kim C. Border, Infinite Dimensional Analysis: A Hitchhiker's Guide, Springer, 3rd Edition, page 8,
- A sublattice of a lattice is a subset that is closed under pairwise infima and suprema.
- 2010, James S. Howland, Basic Real Analysis, Jones & Bartlett Publishers, page 9,
- The best way to describe the supremum of S is to say that it wants to be the greatest element of S. In fact, if S has a greatest element, then that element is the supremum.
- 2011, Andreas Löhne, Vector Optimization with Infimum and Supremum, Springer, page vii,
- The key to an approach to vector optimization based on infimum and supremum is to consider set-based objective functions and to extend the partial ordering of the original objective space to a suitable subspace of the power set. In this new space the infimum and supremum exist under the usual assumptions.
- 2006, Charalambos D. Aliprantis, Kim C. Border, Infinite Dimensional Analysis: A Hitchhiker's Guide, Springer, 3rd Edition, page 8,
Usage notes
- Commonly denoted sup(X).
- The supremum of X may not exist, and, if it does, may not be an element of X.
- (order theory):
- Formally: Let be the set of upper bounds of X. Then sup(X), if it exists, is the element .
- The concept of supremum is closely related to the function ? (called join). The supremum of two elements, denoted can also be written . The supremum of a set may be denoted or .
Synonyms
- (element of a set greater than or equal to all members of a given subset): least upper bound, LUB, sup
Coordinate terms
- infimum
Translations
See also
- maximum
Further reading
- Infimum and supremum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Join and meet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Lattice (order) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Least-upper-bound property on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Upper and lower bounds on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- supermum
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?supr?mum]
Noun
supremum n
- (mathematics) supremum
Antonyms
- infimum
Further reading
- supremum in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?supre(?)mum/, [?s?upre?(?)mum]
- Rhymes: -upremum
- Syllabification: sup?re?mum
Noun
supremum
- (mathematics) supremum
Declension
Synonyms
- pienin yläraja
Antonyms
- infimum
Latin
Adjective
supr?mum
- nominative neuter singular of supr?mus
- accusative masculine singular of supr?mus
- accusative neuter singular of supr?mus
- vocative neuter singular of supr?mus
References
- supremum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- supremum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
Swedish
Noun
supremum n
- (mathematics) supremum
Declension
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