infimum
1
9.9
- noun
- /ɪnˈfɪməm/
- Specialized
- To find the infimum of the function, we must analyze all its possible lower bounds.
Examples
-
If if you have had analysis, a course on mathematical analysis, then you know what in infimum and supremum mean.
-
Thus, the infimum over the individual probabilities of GRSE for all possible configurations is also strictly larger than zero.
Academic text (2018) -
So now I consider infimum of both sides.
-
So therefore that infimum is always non negative.
-
Where the infimum is over all distributions.
Blog text (27) -
Combining the non-zero infimum with the linearly growing number of independent realizations, the probability that there is no global reciprocal sign epistasis at all is at most a value smaller than 1 taken to the power of a non-zero fraction of L.
Academic text (2018) -
In mathematics, the infimum of a set is the largest value that does not exceed any of the set's elements.
-
The infimum of the sequence is essential for determining the limit in calculus.
Synonyms
1
9.9
The largest number that is less than or equal to all numbers in a set
Surface Forms
Etymology
Infimum comes from the Latin infimus, which means 'lowest', and is related to inferior, meaning 'lower'. So infimum is a handy name for the 'lowest' limit of a group of numbers: the greatest value that is still at or below every number, even if that value is not actually in the group.