free monoid

noun

A monoid whose underlying set is the Kleene closure of some set of generators, and whose operator is concatenation.

Meanings

nounfree monoid (plural free monoids)

plural free monoids

  1. algebraA monoid whose underlying set is the Kleene closure of some set of generators, and whose operator is concatenation.
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