Meanings
- The state or quality of being syndetic, particularly
- uncountablegrammarThe use of syndeton, the state or quality of using a conjunction or equivalent conjunctive structure.
- uncountablelibrary scienceThe use of crossreferences or the ability to be crossreferenced.
Values within affordances were ranked and assigned metric values. Standardized canonical discriminant function coefficients of .835, .515, and .298 for complexity, concreteness, and syndeticity.
1994, Mary Esther Brown, Children's Naming of Subject Categories..., Drexel University, p. 79 - uncountablemathematicsThe condition of having bounded gaps between members.
For topological recurrence we need a different notion of largeness for subsets of S, namely that of syndeticity. A subset of E of N is said to be syndetic if it has bounded gaps. Equivalently, E C N is syndetic if N is the union of finitely many shifts.
1988, Robert Ellis & al., ed., Topological Dynamics and Applications... American Mathematical Society, p. 211
Origin
From syndetic + -ity. Equivalent to syndeton + -icity.
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