Applied to expressions or equations involving incommensurable quantities in the exponents; regarded as being intermediate between algebraic and tran…

Mathematics. Applied to an expression, function, or equation whose value is never altered by interchanging the values of any two of the variables…

in or with reference to the work of English mathematician J. J. Sylvester (1814–97): designating multiplication in which the product between two…

Mathematics. Governed by or stating the condition that where three or more quantities are connected together by operators, the result is…

Of or relating to a discriminant (discriminant, n. 1); constituting a discriminant.

= symmetrical, adj.

Mathematics. Designating an algebraic expression that gives information about another expression; spec. designating (a) one that implies whether or…

Of a quantity or element a: having the property that a × a = a, where × represents multiplication or some other binary operation; (of an operator or…

Linear in two ways; chiefly in Mathematics: linear and homogeneous in each of two sets of independent variables. Also absol., a bilinear form.

Mathematics. Such that not all variables or terms are zero or equal to an identity.

Mathematics. Designating a mathematical structure whose defining relations are expressed in such a way that certain distinguished elements appear to…

Mathematics. Designating an entity whose definition involves a pair of elements in a conventionally defined order, opposite to that designated as…