Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

independent set

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.84 in modern English

Syllables: in-de-pen-den-t set
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

5

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

a set of vertices of a graph, such that no pair of them are adjacent to each other; in other words, a set of vertices which are all "independent" of each other

Inflected Forms

independent sets (plural)

Phrases

independence number

Synonyms

coclique

Antonyms

clique

Questions

What does independent set mean?: a set of vertices of a graph, such that no pair of them are adjacent to each other; in other words, a set of vertices which are all "independent" of each other

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