matroid
Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word matroid. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word matroid, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say matroid in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word matroid you have here. The definition of the word matroid will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofmatroid, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
English
Etymology
From matrix + -oid. They were so named by Hassler Whitney in 1935 in an article titled “On the abstract properties of linear dependence”.
Noun
matroid (plural matroids)
- (combinatorics) A structure that captures the essence of a notion of "independence" that generalizes linear independence in vector spaces and acyclicality in graphs.
- A matroid can be defined in terms of bases. A matroid consists of a ground set as well as a set of bases which is a nonempty subset of the power set of the ground set.