Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

ANTICHAIN

Specialty Definition: ANTICHAIN

DomainDefinition

Computing

Antichain A subset S of a partially ordered set P is an antichain if, for all x, y in S, x <= y => x = y I.e. no two different elements are related. ("<=" is written in LaTeX as \subseteq). (1995-02-03). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Math

A subset of mutually incomparable elements in a poset. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Specialty Definition: Antichain

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

In mathematics, an antichain in a partially ordered set S is a subset A of S such that every pair of members of A is incomparable, i.e., for any x, y in A, neither xy nor y\x.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Antichain."

Top     

Anagrams: ANTICHAIN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-h-i-i-n-n-t"

-1 letter: actinian.

-2 letters: acanthi, actinia, cantina.

-3 letters: canthi, chitin, incant, niacin, tahini, tannic.

-4 letters: acini, actin, aitch, antic, canna, chain, chant, china, natch, ninth.

-5 letters: acta, anna, anta, anti, cain, cant, chat, chia, chin, chit, hant, hint, inch, inia, inti, itch, naan, nana, tach, tain, than, thin.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-h-i-i-n-n-t"
 

+2 letters: cantharidin, inhabitancy, machinating, machination.

 

+3 letters: antipoaching, cachinnating, cachinnation, cantharidins, machinations.

 

+4 letters: anachronistic, antimechanist, cachinnations, hallucinating, hallucination, inhabitancies, mechanization.

 

+5 letters: antihistaminic, antihumanistic, antimechanists, antimonarchist, authenticating, authentication, channelization, hallucinations, mechanizations, noncharismatic.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Top     

Alternative Orthography: ANTICHAIN


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 4E 54 49 43 48 41 49 4E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    -.    -    ..    -.-.    ....    .-    ..    -.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01001110 01010100 01001001 01000011 01001000 01000001 01001001 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#78 &#84 &#73 &#67 &#72 &#65 &#73 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 004E 0054 0049 0043 0048 0041 0049 004E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

354854433742354348

Top     



INDEX

1. Anagrams
2. Orthography
3. Bibliography


  

Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.