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principal ideal

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.18 in modern English

Syllables
prin-ci-pal ide-al
IPA
21
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An ideal I in an algebraic object R (which could be a ring, algebra, semigroup or lattice) that is generated by a given single element a ∈ R; the smallest ideal that contains a.

Inflected Forms

principal ideals (plural)

Phrases

left principal ideal principal fractional ideal principal ideal domain right principal ideal

Synonyms

two-sided principal ideal

Questions

What does principal ideal mean?
An ideal I in an algebraic object R (which could be a ring, algebra, semigroup or lattice) that is generated by a given single element a ∈ R; the smallest ideal that contains a.

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