Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

greco-latin square

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.97 in modern English

Syllables: gre-co-lat-in square
IPA

28

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

4

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A form of Latin square formed by the superposition of two Latin squares that do not lead to the same composite value appearing in any of the squares of the result.

Example Sentences

"Bose and Shrikhande then applied these rules and were able to build a Greco-Latin square of order 22. This disproved Euler's conjecture, as 22 is an even number not divisible by four."
"Table 3.3.3.1 shows a Greco-Latin square with four treatments."
"Since we now have repeated ordered pairs, the square above is not a Greco-Latin square."

Inflected Forms

Greco-Latin squares (plural)

Questions

What does greco-latin square mean?: A form of Latin square formed by the superposition of two Latin squares that do not lead to the same composite value appearing in any of the squares of the result.

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