Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

submultiplicative

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: sub-mul-ti-plica-tive
IPA

28

Scrabble Score

17

Letters

5

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having the property ‖AB‖≤‖A‖‖B‖

Example Sentences

"The partition functions of these models may satisfy a variety of super- or submultiplicative inequalities, and these may be reduced to a subadditive relation by taking logarithms, and changing signs, if necessary."

Etymology

From sub- + multiplicative.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: sub

Frequently Paired Words

norm

Questions

What does submultiplicative mean?: Having the property ‖AB‖≤‖A‖‖B‖
Where does submultiplicative come from?: From sub- + multiplicative.

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