Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

quasireflexive

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
quasire-flex-ive
IPA
36
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of a relation ~ on a set S: such that every element that is related to some element is also related to itself, i.e. ∀x,y∈S: x~y ⇒ x~x ∧ y~y.

adj

Of a Banach space X: such that the quotient X ′′ / J(X) has finite dimension d. (It is then said to be "quasireflexive of order d".)

Etymology

From quasi- + reflexive.

Word Breakdown

Questions

What does quasireflexive mean?
Of a relation ~ on a set S: such that every element that is related to some element is also related to itself, i.e. ∀x,y∈S: x~y ⇒ x~x ∧ y~y.
Where does quasireflexive come from?
From quasi- + reflexive.

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