单词 | connexity |
释义 | connexityn. 1. The quality of being connected; connectedness. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > fact or action of being connected or connecting > [noun] colligation1502 colligance?1541 connexity1603 concretion1605 connection1609 connexure1615 band1631 connectedness1844 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. xi. 247 The Peripathetikes doe also disavow this connexitie, and indissoluble knitting together [of the virtues]. 1708 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais (1737) V. 235 The superficial connexity of our Heels. 1886 Athenæum 31 July 140/1 The universal connexity of existence is as clear to him as to Dionysius Areopagitus. ΚΠ 1645 Treaty w. Spain in C. King Brit. Merch. III. 150 I grant you the most full and complete Power and most ample Commission, as by Law is required and necessary, with their Incidencies, Dependencies, Annexities and Connexities. 3. Mathematics and Logic. The property of being connected adj. 5. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematics > [noun] > mathematical property irreductibility1865 utility1881 intransitivity1889 independence1902 non-linearity1904 connexity1905 analyticity1914 irredundance1925 irreflexiveness1933 decidability1936 non-emptiness1936 undecidability1942 irredundancy1952 irreflexivity1964 single-valuedness1968 1905 E. V. Huntington in Ann. Math. 6 157 If a and b are distinct elements of K, then either a < b or b < a. This postulate has been called by Russell the postulate of connexity. 1907 E. W. Hobson Theory of Functions of Real Variable §40 The most important properties of a function may still subsist even if the domain of the variable lacks the property of connexity. 1925 A. N. Whitehead Sci. & Mod. World (1926) 235 The third condition to be satisfied by an abstractive hierarchy will be called the condition of connexity. 1934 M. R. Cohen & E. Nagel Introd. Logic vi. 115 A relation with this property is said to have connexity. 1941 O. Helmer tr. A. Tarski Introd. Logic vii. 161 These theorems are known as the ‘laws of connexity’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1603 |
随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。