Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

discrete valuation

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.34 in modern English

Syllables: dis-crete -val-u-a-tion
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

17

Letters

6

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A valuation (on some field) that takes integer values (including infinity).

Example Sentences

"Therefore the theory branches in two essential parts : first the study of discrete valuations of the Weyl field D#95;1(K) extending a discrete valuation of K, secondly the discrete valuations of D#95;1(K) having the purely transcendental field K(t) as a residue field."
"One of the few possibilities to extend some arithmetic aspects of number theory to more abstract fields is via valuation theory and, as a first step, we may restrict attention to discrete valuations."
"Let k be a field with a nontrivial discrete valuation which is complete and has perfect residue field."

Inflected Forms

discrete valuations (plural)

Phrases

discrete valuation field discrete valuation ring p-adic absolute value p-adic norm residue field valuation algebra valuation domain valuation ring

Frequently Paired Words

p-adic absolute value p-adic norm residue field valuation algebra valuation domain valuation ring

Questions

What does discrete valuation mean?: A valuation (on some field) that takes integer values (including infinity).

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