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The formal term in propositional calculus for the connective implies.

Newton's term for a variable in his method of fluxions (differential calculus).

The term "ill-defined" is also used informally to mean ambiguous.

A loose term for a true statement which may be a postulate, theorem, etc.

Lachlan's term for a set of four lines, no three of which are concurrent.

Lachlan's term for a set of four points, no three of which are collinear.

The image of the path gamma in C under the function f is called the trace. This usage of the term "trace" is unrelated to the same term applied to matrices or tensors.

An algebraic expression containing more than one term (cf., binomial). The term is also used to refer to a polynomial.

The term metric signature refers to the signature of a metric tensor g=g_(ij) on a smooth manifold M, a tool which quantifies the numbers of positive, zero, and negative ...

An ideal is a subset I of elements in a ring R that forms an additive group and has the property that, whenever x belongs to R and y belongs to I, then xy and yx belong to I. ...