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-adic en · X

Pronunciation

Etymology

Back-formation from monadic, etc., from Ancient Greek -άς (-ás) (genitive -άδος (-ádos)) + -ικός (-ikós) (English -ad + -ic). Compare related adicity and Latinate -ary. The algebraic sense is by analogy with p-adic, since ℤ₍ₚ₎ equipped with the (p)-adic topology passes to the ring of p-adic numbers under the operation of completion.

Meanings

  1. (morpheme) Having a specified adicity.
  2. (morpheme, of a topology on a module M over a ring R, qualifier:combined with a symbol (here I but also often p, m, or a) representing an ideal of R) Such that the sets x+Iⁿᴹ (where x∈M, n a non-negative integer) form a basis for the topology.

Relateds

monadic · p-adic · hexadic · enneadic · nonadic · octadic · duadic · polyadic · pentadic · niladic · tetradic · variadic · dyadic · heptadic · triadic · decadic · n-adic

Synonyms

-ary (adicity)

Translations (6)

ro -adic (having a number of arguments) · it -adico (having a number of arguments) · de -adisch (having a number of arguments) · fr -adique (having a number of arguments) · fi -adinen (having a number of arguments) · hu -adikus (having a number of arguments)

wikipedia: p-adic numbers