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English
Etymology
From syndetic + -ity. Equivalent to syndeton + -icity.
Noun
syndeticity (uncountable)
- The state or quality of being syndetic, particularly
- (grammar) The use of syndeton, the state or quality of using a conjunction or equivalent conjunctive structure.
- (library science) The use of crossreferences or the ability to be crossreferenced.
- 1994, Mary Esther Brown, Children's Naming of Subject Categories..., Drexel University, p. 79:
- Values within affordances were ranked and assigned metric values. Standardized canonical discriminant function coefficients of .835, .515, and .298 for complexity, concreteness, and syndeticity.
- (mathematics) The condition of having bounded gaps between members.
- 1988, Robert Ellis & al., ed., Topological Dynamics and Applications... American Mathematical Society, p. 211:
- For topological recurrence we need a different notion of largeness for subsets of S, namely that of syndeticity. A subset of E of N is said to be syndetic if it has bounded gaps. Equivalently, E C N is syndetic if N is the union of finitely many shifts.
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