"commutative ring" meaning in English

See commutative ring in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: commutative rings [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} commutative ring (plural commutative rings)
  1. (algebra, ring theory) A ring whose multiplicative operation is commutative. Wikipedia link: commutative ring Categories (topical): Algebra, Ring theory Hyponyms: local ring Hyponyms (Euclidean domain): field Hyponyms (commutative algebra): polynomial ring Translations (a ring whose multiplicative operation is commutative): anello commutativo [masculine] (Italian), 可換環 (kakankan) (alt: かかんかん) (Japanese), inel comutativ [neuter] (Romanian)

Inflected forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "commutative rings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "commutative ring (plural commutative rings)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Italian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Japanese translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Romanian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Algebra",
          "orig": "en:Algebra",
          "parents": [
            "Mathematics",
            "Formal sciences",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Ring theory",
          "orig": "en:Ring theory",
          "parents": [
            "Algebra",
            "Mathematics",
            "Formal sciences",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1960, Oscar Zariski, Pierre Samuel, Commutative Algebra II, Springer, page 129:",
          "text": "Among commutative rings, the polynomial rings in a finite number of indeterminates enjoy important special properties and are frequently used in applications.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Joseph J. Rotman, Advanced Modern Algebra, 2nd edition, American Mathematical Society, page 295:",
          "text": "As usual, it is simpler to begin by looking at a more general setting—in this case, commutative rings—before getting involved with polynomial rings. It turns out that the nature of the ideals in a commutative ring is important: for example, we have already seen that gcd's exist in PIDs, while this may not be true in other commutative rings.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, K. R. Goodearl, R. B. Warfield, Jr., An Introduction to Noncommutative Noetherian Rings, Cambridge University Press, page 47:",
          "text": "In trying to understand the ideal theory of a commutative ring, one quickly sees that it is important to first understand the prime ideals. We recall that a proper ideal P in a commutative ring R is prime if, whenever we have two elements a and b of R such that ab#x5C;inP, it follows that a#x5C;inP or b#x5C;inP; equivalently, P is a prime ideal if and only if the factor ring R#x2F;P is a domain.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A ring whose multiplicative operation is commutative."
      ],
      "hyponyms": [
        {
          "sense": "Euclidean domain",
          "word": "field"
        },
        {
          "word": "local ring"
        },
        {
          "sense": "commutative algebra",
          "word": "polynomial ring"
        }
      ],
      "id": "en-commutative_ring-en-noun-N1Stwt0X",
      "links": [
        [
          "algebra",
          "algebra"
        ],
        [
          "ring",
          "ring#Etymology_3"
        ],
        [
          "commutative",
          "commutative#English"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "ring theory",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(algebra, ring theory) A ring whose multiplicative operation is commutative."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "algebra",
        "mathematics",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "a ring whose multiplicative operation is commutative",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "anello commutativo"
        },
        {
          "alt": "かかんかん",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "kakankan",
          "sense": "a ring whose multiplicative operation is commutative",
          "word": "可換環"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "a ring whose multiplicative operation is commutative",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "inel comutativ"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "commutative ring"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "commutative ring"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "commutative rings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "commutative ring (plural commutative rings)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyponyms": [
    {
      "sense": "Euclidean domain",
      "word": "field"
    },
    {
      "word": "local ring"
    },
    {
      "sense": "commutative algebra",
      "word": "polynomial ring"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Terms with Italian translations",
        "Terms with Japanese translations",
        "Terms with Romanian translations",
        "en:Algebra",
        "en:Ring theory"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1960, Oscar Zariski, Pierre Samuel, Commutative Algebra II, Springer, page 129:",
          "text": "Among commutative rings, the polynomial rings in a finite number of indeterminates enjoy important special properties and are frequently used in applications.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Joseph J. Rotman, Advanced Modern Algebra, 2nd edition, American Mathematical Society, page 295:",
          "text": "As usual, it is simpler to begin by looking at a more general setting—in this case, commutative rings—before getting involved with polynomial rings. It turns out that the nature of the ideals in a commutative ring is important: for example, we have already seen that gcd's exist in PIDs, while this may not be true in other commutative rings.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, K. R. Goodearl, R. B. Warfield, Jr., An Introduction to Noncommutative Noetherian Rings, Cambridge University Press, page 47:",
          "text": "In trying to understand the ideal theory of a commutative ring, one quickly sees that it is important to first understand the prime ideals. We recall that a proper ideal P in a commutative ring R is prime if, whenever we have two elements a and b of R such that ab#x5C;inP, it follows that a#x5C;inP or b#x5C;inP; equivalently, P is a prime ideal if and only if the factor ring R#x2F;P is a domain.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A ring whose multiplicative operation is commutative."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "algebra",
          "algebra"
        ],
        [
          "ring",
          "ring#Etymology_3"
        ],
        [
          "commutative",
          "commutative#English"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "ring theory",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(algebra, ring theory) A ring whose multiplicative operation is commutative."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "algebra",
        "mathematics",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "commutative ring"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "a ring whose multiplicative operation is commutative",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "anello commutativo"
    },
    {
      "alt": "かかんかん",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kakankan",
      "sense": "a ring whose multiplicative operation is commutative",
      "word": "可換環"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "a ring whose multiplicative operation is commutative",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "inel comutativ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "commutative ring"
}

Download raw JSONL data for commutative ring meaning in English (3.0kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.