coinitiality

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noun

The least cardinality of a coinitial subset of a partially ordered set.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

nouncoinitiality (countable and uncountable, plural coinitialities)

plural coinitialities

  1. countablemathematicsThe least cardinality of a coinitial subset of a partially ordered set.
  2. uncountablemathematicsThe property of being coinitial.
    1 more example

    The dual notion of cofinality is coinitiality: a set S#92;subseteqP is called coinitial if for every p#92;inP there is q#92;inS such that q#92;lep. Equivalently, a coinitial set in P is a cofinal set in P#92;ast#58;#61;(P,#92;ge). […] Both cofinality and coinitiality need not be well-defined for an arbitrary partial order (e.g. if the partial order is only made of two incomparable elements).

    2024 November 12, Steffen Lempp, Alberto Marcone, Manlio Valenti, “Chains and antichains in the Weihrauch lattice”, in arXiv, page 1, archived from the original on 23 Jun 2026

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*ḱe?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm
  3. Proto-Italic*kom
  4. Proto-Italic*kom-
  5. Latincon-
  6. Latinco-
  7. Englishco-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
  9. Proto-Italic*en
  10. Proto-Italic*en-
  11. Proto-Indo-European*h₁ey-
  12. Proto-Indo-European*h₁éyti
  13. Proto-Italic*ejō
  14. Proto-Italic*eō
  15. Proto-Italic*eneō
  16. Latinineō
  17. Latininitium
  18. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
  19. Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
  20. Latininitiāli
  21. Middle Frenchinitia
  22. Latininitiāli
  23. Englishinitial
  24. Englishcoinitial
  25. Englishcoinitiality

From coinitial + -ity.

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