Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tamari lattice

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.90 in modern English

Syllables: tamar-i lat-tice
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A partially ordered set in which the elements consist of different ways of grouping a sequence of objects into pairs using parentheses (e.g. for a sequence of four objects abcd, the five possible groupings are ((ab)c)d, (ab)(cd), (a(bc))d, a((bc)d), and a(b(cd))).

Etymology

Introduced by Dov Tamari (1962).

Inflected Forms

Tamari lattices (plural)

Questions

What does tamari lattice mean?: A partially ordered set in which the elements consist of different ways of grouping a sequence of objects into pairs using parentheses (e.g. for a sequence of four objects abcd, the five possible groupings are ((ab)c)d, (ab)(cd), (a(bc))d, a((bc)d), and a(b(cd))).
Where does tamari lattice come from?: Introduced by Dov Tamari (1962).

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