"preimage" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: preimages [plural]
Rhymes: -ɪmɪdʒ Etymology: From pre- + image. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|pre|image}} pre- + image Head templates: {{en-noun}} preimage (plural preimages)
  1. (mathematics) For a given function, the set of all elements of the domain that are mapped into a given subset of the codomain; (formally) given a function ƒ : X → Y and a subset B ⊆ Y, the set ƒ⁻¹(B) = {x ∈ X : ƒ(x) ∈ B}. Wikipedia link: Preimage Categories (topical): Mathematics Synonyms (set of all elements that map into a given subset of the codomain of a function): inverse image Hyponyms (set of all elements that map into a given subset of the codomain of a function): kernel Derived forms: preimage attack Related terms: image Translations (set of all elements that map into a given subset of the codomain of a function): 原像 (yuánxiàng) (Chinese Mandarin), prabildo (Esperanto), kontraŭbildo (Esperanto), malbildo (Esperanto), alkukuva (Finnish), préimage [feminine] (French), image réciproque [feminine] (French), Urbild [neuter] (German), przeciwobraz [masculine] (Polish), pré-imagem [feminine] (Portuguese), imagen inversa [feminine] (Spanish), antiimagen [feminine] (Spanish), contraimagen [feminine] (Spanish)

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