different between quism vs quist

English

Etymology

Contraction of quasi-isomorphism.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?z?m

Noun

quism (plural quisms)

1. (mathematics) A quasi-isomorphism.
   • 1990, Jan R, Strooker, Homological Questions in Local Algebra, Cambridge University Press, ?ISBN, page 5:

     Most authors speak of a quasi-isomorphism or quism, but Bourbaki's term is more descriptive.

   • 1992, Kathryn P. Hess, “Twisted tensor products of DGA’s and the Adams-Hilton model for the total space of a fibration”, in Nigel Ray and Spike Walker (editors), Adams Memorial Symposium on Algebraic Topology (proceedings of a July 1990 symposium), Volume I, Cambridge University Press, ?ISBN, page 51:

     Then the composition is a quism and therefore is an acceptable Adams-Hilton model for E.

   • 2000, Alex Martsinkofsky, New homological invariants for modules over local rings, II, Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra, Vol. 153 No. 1:

     By [3], the vertical maps are quisms.

   • 2002, Martin Markl, Steven Shnider, James Stasheff, Operads in Algebra, Topology and Physics, American Mathematical Society, ?ISBN, page 201:

     Since ?? is a surjective quism, the ?-module K is acyclic.

Anagrams

• Qumis, quims

English

Etymology

From Middle English quiste, quyste, quyshte, variants of Middle English couschot, cowschote, cowscott, from Old English c?s?eote (“wood pigeon, ringdove”). Doublet of cushat.

Noun

quist (plural quists)

1. (Midlands) The wood pigeon, Columba palumbus.

Anagrams

• quits, squit

Middle English

Noun

quist

1. Alternative form of quiste