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Encyclopedia > Set (disambiguation)
Look up set in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

The word set, which has a multitude of definitions in the English language (464 separate definitions, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, making it one of the words with the highest number of definitions. It's full definition contain over 10,000 words making it the longest definiton in the OED), may have any of the following meanings: Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary logo Wiktionary is a sister project to Wikipedia intended to be a free wiki dictionary (including thesaurus and lexicon) in every language. ... The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is a comprehensive dictionary published by the Oxford University Press (OUP). ...

See also: In mathematics, a set can be thought of as any collection of distinct things considered as a whole. ... In computer science, the set is a collection of certain values without any particular order. ... Given a set of elements, it is often useful to break them up or partition them into a number of separate, nonoverlapping groups. ... In mathematics, two sets are said to be disjoint if they have no element in common. ... Three cards from a Set deck. ... Tennis balls This article is about the sport, tennis. ... In drama, the set (or setting) is the location of a storys action. ... Musical set theory is an atonal or post-tonal method of musical analysis and composition which is based on explaining and proving musical phenomena, taken as sets and subsets, using mathematical rules and notation and using that information to gain insight to compositions or their creation. ... Diatonic set theory is a subdivision or application of musical set theory which applies the techniques and insights of set theory to properties of the diatonic collection such as maximal evenness, Myhills property, well formedness, the deep scale property, cardinality equals variety, and structure implies multiplicity. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... Set and setting describes the context for drug experiences: ones mindset and the setting in which the user has his experience. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... In the Conan the Barbarian and Marvel continuities Set is a malevolent seven-headed serpent god. ... A set is a group of items with similar properties that, when combined, give an overall set bonus. ... Square dance is a folk dance where four couples (eight dancers) begin and end each sequence in a square formation, with one couple on each side of a square. ... The term breasts can refer to: Plural of breast. ...


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Set - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1506 words)
Set theory, having only been invented at the end of the 19th century, is now a ubiquitous part of mathematics education, being introduced as early as primary school.
Set theory can be viewed as the foundation upon which nearly all of mathematics can be built and the source from which nearly all mathematics can be derived.
denotes the set of all rational numbers (that is, the set of all proper and improper fractions).
Set (1529 words)
Loosely defined, a set is a collection of objects called elements, for example, a flock of birds, a school of fish, a murder of crows, etc.
The ‘number of elements’ in a certain set is called the cardinal number of the set and denoted for a set (for a finite set this is an ordinary number, for an infinite set it differentiates between different "degrees of infiniteness", named (aleph zero),).
The set of functions from a set A to a set B is sometimes denoted by B
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