symmetric group

English

Noun

symmetric group (plural symmetric groups)

(mathematics) A group whose elements are precisely all of the bijections of some set with itself and whose operation is composition of those bijections.

Meronyms

alternating group

Translations

mathematics: a group whose elements are precisely all of the bijections of some set with itself and whose operation is composition of those bijections

Finnish: symmetrinen ryhmä
Icelandic: samhverf grúpa f

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