Skip to content
ontologydriven
Sign out

Dictionary

Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

Boolean ring en · NOUN

Etymology

Named after George Boole (1815–1864), an English mathematician, educator, philosopher and logician.

Meanings

  1. A ring whose multiplicative operation is idempotent.
    • From the defining idempotency property of a Boolean ring it is possible to prove that such ring has to have the further properties that each element is its own inverse and that such ring must be commutative.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
Boolean rings Number=Plur lexicographic

Hypernyms

linear algebra

Relateds

Boolean algebra · ring sum normal form

Translations (1)

pl pierścień Boole'a (in a venial manner)

wikipedia: George Boole