algebras
noun
Meaning
- A system for computation using letters or other symbols to represent numbers, with rules for manipulating these symbols.
- The surgical treatment of a dislocated or fractured bone. Also : a dislocation or fracture.
- The study of algebraic structures.
- A universal algebra.
- An algebraic structure consisting of a module over a commutative ring (or a vector space over a field) along with an additional binary operation that is bilinear over module (or vector) addition and scalar multiplication.
- A collection of subsets of a given set, such that this collection contains the empty set, and the collection is closed under unions and complements (and thereby also under intersections and differences).
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