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Named after the mathematician Dana Scott.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: Of a subset O of a partially ordered set P: such that it is an upper set and is inaccessible by directed joins, i.e. all directed sets D with supremum in O have non-empty intersection with O. Full definition →
Named after the mathematician Dana Scott.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.