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From an- + arboricity. Coined by Ronald C. Read; the etymologically inaccurate Greek prefix an- was chosen to achieve a pun on the name of Ann Arbor, where the University of Michigan is based.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
anarboricity
Today it means: The maximum number of edge-disjoint cyclic subgraphs of a graph G whose union is G. Full definition →