See Zeno in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "2000, J. Zhang et al., “Dynamical Systems Revisted: Hybrid Systems with Zeno Executions”, in Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control, page 458:",
"text": "It is therefore important to be able to determine if a model is Zeno and in applicable cases remove Zenoness.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2005, Heinrich Rust, “Chapter 3”, in Operational Semantics for Timed Systems: A Non-standard Approach to Uniform Modeling of Timed and Hybrid Systems, page 17:",
"text": "While this system is not Zeno, it can nevertheless not be considered implementable; thus, the boundedness of activity seems to be a more appropriate abstract concept of implementability of a system with respect to the amount of activity in finite intervals of time.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2013, Y. Si et al., “Improving Model Checking Stateful Timed CSP with non-Zenoness through Clock-Symmetry Reduction”, in Formal Methods and Software Engineering : 15th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods, ICFEM 2013, page 183:",
"text": "That is, it is necessary to check whether a run is Zeno so as to avoid presenting Zeno runs as counterexamples.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Requiring or involving an infinite number of intervals within a finite time."
],
"links": [
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"mathematics",
"mathematics"
],
[
"philosophy",
"philosophy"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(mathematics, philosophy) Requiring or involving an infinite number of intervals within a finite time."
],
"tags": [
"not-comparable"
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"mathematics",
"philosophy",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈziːnoʊ/"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "Zenon"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Zeno",
"Zeno of Elea",
"Zeno's paradoxes"
],
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}
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