set




(mathematics) an abstract collection of numbers or symbols

"the set of prime numbers is infinite"

Type of:
  • abstraction; abstract entity

Types:
  • interval
  • group; mathematical group
  • domain; domain of a function
  • image; range; range of a function
  • universal set
  • locus
  • subset
  • null set
  • Mandelbrot set
  • mathematical space; topological space
  • field
  • solution; root
  • diagonal
  • intersection


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