Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

chain complex

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.44 in modern English

Syllables: chain -com-plex
IPA

30

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A sequence of Abelian groups (or modules), together with a sequence of homomorphisms (called boundary homomorphisms) between consecutive groups, such that the image of one homomorphism is contained in the kernel of the next.

Inflected Forms

chain complexes (plural)

Questions

What does chain complex mean?: A sequence of Abelian groups (or modules), together with a sequence of homomorphisms (called boundary homomorphisms) between consecutive groups, such that the image of one homomorphism is contained in the kernel of the next.

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