Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

levi-civita field

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.74 in modern English

Syllables: lev-i--civ-i-ta -field
IPA

27

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

7

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A non-Archimedean ordered field whose every member a can be constructed as a formal series of the form a=∑_(q∈ℚ)a_qε^q, where a_q are real numbers, ℚ is the set of rational numbers, and ε is to be interpreted as a fixed positive infinitesimal.

Etymology

Named after Tullio Levi-Civita.

Inflected Forms

Levi-Civita fields (plural)

Questions

What does levi-civita field mean?: A non-Archimedean ordered field whose every member a can be constructed as a formal series of the form a=∑_(q∈ℚ)a_qε^q, where a_q are real numbers, ℚ is the set of rational numbers, and ε is to be interpreted as a fixed positive infinitesimal.
Where does levi-civita field come from?: Named after Tullio Levi-Civita.

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