MATHEMATICAL GROUP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mathematical group mean? 

• MATHEMATICAL GROUP (noun)
  The noun MATHEMATICAL GROUP has 1 sense:

1. a set that is closed, associative, has an identity element and every element has an inverse

  Familiarity information: MATHEMATICAL GROUP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MATHEMATICAL GROUP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A set that is closed, associative, has an identity element and every element has an inverse

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

group; mathematical group

Hypernyms ("mathematical group" is a kind of...):

set ((mathematics) an abstract collection of numbers or symbols)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mathematical group"):

subgroup ((mathematics) a subset (that is not empty) of a mathematical group)

Abelian group; commutative group (a group that satisfies the commutative law)