sofic

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adjective

Whose Cayley graph is an initially subamenable graph.

“a sofic subshift”

OriginHebrew סופי →
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Meanings

adjectivesofic (not comparable)
  1. not comparablemathematicsWhose Cayley graph is an initially subamenable graph.
  2. not comparablemathematicsWhose forbidden words form a regular language.

    a sofic subshift

Origin

  1. Hebrewסופי“finite”
  2. Englishsofic

Coined by mathematician Benjamin Weiss in 1973, based on Hebrew סופי (“finite”).

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APA

sofic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sofic

MLA

“sofic.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sofic. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sofic,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sofic.

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