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gammoid

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
gam-moid
IPA
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A certain kind of matroid, describing sets of vertices that can be reached by vertex-disjoint paths in a directed graph.

adj

Shaped like a gamma.

Etymology

Named by J. H. Mason in a 1972 paper (On a Class of Matroids Arising From Paths in Graphs).

Inflected Forms

gammoids (plural) more gammoid (comparative) most gammoid (superlative)

Questions

What does gammoid mean?
A certain kind of matroid, describing sets of vertices that can be reached by vertex-disjoint paths in a directed graph.
Where does gammoid come from?
Named by J. H. Mason in a 1972 paper (On a Class of Matroids Arising From Paths in Graphs).

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