different between matroid vs matroidal

English

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.

matroid +? -al

matroidal (comparative more matroidal, superlative most matroidal)

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