Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

semihereditary

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: semi-hered-i-tary
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of a ring: hereditary for finitely generated submodules.

Example Sentences

"The classical ring of quotients of a commutative Bezout ring is a (von Neumann) regular local ring if and only if R is a commutative semihereditary local ring."

Etymology

From semi- + hereditary.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: semi

Questions

What does semihereditary mean?: Of a ring: hereditary for finitely generated submodules.
Where does semihereditary come from?: From semi- + hereditary.

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