"negligible set" meaning in English

See negligible set in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: negligible sets [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} negligible set (plural negligible sets)
  1. (mathematics, set theory, measure theory) A set that is small enough that it can be ignored for some purpose. Wikipedia link: negligible set Categories (topical): Mathematics, Measure theory, Set theory Synonyms: null set
    Sense id: en-negligible_set-en-noun-9~3beucA Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: mathematics, measure-theory, sciences, set-theory

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for negligible set meaning in English (1.5kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "negligible sets",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "negligible set (plural negligible sets)",
      "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": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Mathematics",
          "orig": "en:Mathematics",
          "parents": [
            "Formal sciences",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Measure theory",
          "orig": "en:Measure theory",
          "parents": [
            "Mathematics",
            "Formal sciences",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Set theory",
          "orig": "en:Set theory",
          "parents": [
            "Mathematics",
            "Formal sciences",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A set that is small enough that it can be ignored for some purpose."
      ],
      "id": "en-negligible_set-en-noun-9~3beucA",
      "links": [
        [
          "mathematics",
          "mathematics"
        ],
        [
          "set theory",
          "set theory"
        ],
        [
          "measure theory",
          "measure theory"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(mathematics, set theory, measure theory) A set that is small enough that it can be ignored for some purpose."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "null set"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "mathematics",
        "measure-theory",
        "sciences",
        "set-theory"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "negligible set"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "negligible set"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "negligible sets",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "negligible set (plural negligible sets)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "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",
        "en:Mathematics",
        "en:Measure theory",
        "en:Set theory"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A set that is small enough that it can be ignored for some purpose."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "mathematics",
          "mathematics"
        ],
        [
          "set theory",
          "set theory"
        ],
        [
          "measure theory",
          "measure theory"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(mathematics, set theory, measure theory) A set that is small enough that it can be ignored for some purpose."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "mathematics",
        "measure-theory",
        "sciences",
        "set-theory"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "negligible set"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "null set"
    }
  ],
  "word": "negligible set"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). 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.