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From greed (from its applicability to problems that can be solved by greedy algorithms) and matroid.
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Today it means: A particular type of set system. Full definition →
From greed (from its applicability to problems that can be solved by greedy algorithms) and matroid.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.