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principal ideal en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. An ideal I in an algebraic object R (which could be a ring, algebra, semigroup or lattice) that is generated by a given single element a ∈ R; the smallest ideal that contains a.

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Deriveds

principal ideal domain · right principal ideal · principal fractional ideal · left principal ideal

Synonyms

two-sided principal ideal (smallest ideal that contains a given element)