different between independence vs matroid

English

From French indépendance

independence (countable and uncountable, plural independences)

The quality or state of being independent; lack of dependence; the state of not being reliant on, or controlled by, others.
The state of having sufficient means for a comfortable livelihood.

From matrix +? -oid. They were so named by Hassler Whitney in 1935 in an article titled “On the abstract properties of linear dependence”.

matroid (plural matroids)

(combinatorics) A structure that captures the essence of a notion of "independence" that generalizes linear independence in vector spaces and acyclicality in graphs.