principal ideals

A form of principal ideal — An ideal I in an algebraic object R (which could be a ring, algebra, semigroup or lattice) that is generated by a given single element a ∈ R; the smallest ideal that contains a.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of principal ideal
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