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Meaning of "irreflexive" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF IRREFLEXIVE

ˌɪrɪˈflɛksɪv


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF IRREFLEXIVE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Irreflexive is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES IRREFLEXIVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Reflexive relation

In mathematics, a reflexive relation is a binary relation on a set for which every element is related to itself. In other words, a relation ~ on a set S is reflexive when x ~ x holds true for every x in S, formally: when ∀xS: x~x holds. An example of a reflexive relation is the relation "is equal to" on the set of real numbers, since every real number is equal to itself. A reflexive relation is said to have the reflexive property or is said to possess reflexivity.

Definition of irreflexive in the English dictionary

The definition of irreflexive in the dictionary is failing to hold between each member of its domain and itself.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH IRREFLEXIVE

abusive · aggressive · comprehensive · connexive · defensive · excessive · exclusive · expensive · extensive · fixive · fluxive · impressive · inclusive · intensive · massive · nonreflexive · offensive · passive · progressive · reflexive

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE IRREFLEXIVE

irreductibility · irreduction · irreflection · irreflective · irreflexion · irreformability · irreformable · irreformably · irrefragability · irrefragable · irrefragableness · irrefragably · irrefrangibility · irrefrangible · irrefrangibleness · irrefrangibly · irrefutability · irrefutable · irrefutableness · irrefutably

WORDS THAT END LIKE IRREFLEXIVE

active · alive · alternative · archive · arrive · automotive · competitive · cooperative · creative · drive · effective · executive · five · give · in the negative · interactive · live · native · negative · on the defensive

Synonyms and antonyms of irreflexive in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «irreflexive» into 25 languages

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The translations of irreflexive from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «irreflexive» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

漫反射
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

irreflexiva
570 millions of speakers
en

English

irreflexive
510 millions of speakers
hi

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irreflexive
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

irreflexive
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

иррефлексивно
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

irreflexiva
270 millions of speakers
bn

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irreflexive
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

irréflexive
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Irreflexive
190 millions of speakers
de

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irreflexive
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

非反射
130 millions of speakers
ko

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irreflexive
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Irreflexive
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

irreflexive
80 millions of speakers
ta

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irreflexive
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

Irreflexive
75 millions of speakers
tr

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irreflexive
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

irriflessiva
65 millions of speakers
pl

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irreflexive
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

іррефлексівно
40 millions of speakers
ro

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irreflexive
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

irreflexive
15 millions of speakers
af

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irreflexive
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

irreflexive
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

irreflexive
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «IRREFLEXIVE»

Discover the use of irreflexive in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to irreflexive and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Introduction to Symbolic Logic and Its Applications
A clear, comprehensive, and rigorous treatment develops the subject from elementary concepts to the construction and analysis of relatively complex logical languages.
Rudolf Carnap, 2012
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Discrete Mathematics Using a Computer
OldMarketPlace Cathedral Museum HouseOfFamousWriter As long as the domain A of a relation R :: A × A is non-empty, then it is impossible for R to be both reflexive and irreflexive. To see this, consider some element x of the domain (such ...
John O'Donnell, Cordelia Hall, Rex Page, 2007
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Mental Health Research Institute Staff Publications
1 1 irreflexive 2 3 irreflexive asymmetric asymmetric 1-leader 1 -follower 1 - follower unlooped unJooped noregrowth noregrowth 3 2 irreflexive 4 4 irreflexive asymmetric asymmetric 1 -leader unlooped unJooped noregrowth noregrowth 5 5 ...
University of Michigan. Mental Health Research Institute, 1973
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Fuzzy Relational Maps and Neutrosophic Relational Maps
13k3m COROLLARY: If all the minimal solutions U, are reflexive, then any solution of ( 8 ) is reflexive. Lemma 1.24.5: If the relation U is irreflexive, then any solution of Eq. (8) is irreflexive. Lemma 1.24.6: The relation U* is irreflexive iff ...
W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy, Florentin Smarandache, 2004
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Sets, Logic and Maths for Computing
Indeed, < has the opposite property of being irreflexive over the natural numbers: never n< n. Clearly, reflexivity and irreflexivity are not the only possibilities: a relation R over a set may be neither one nor the other. For example, n is a prime  ...
David Makinson, 2012
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Logical Syntax of Language
We define the "pf.1 ' Irr ' as follows : ' Irr (F) = (x) ( — F(x, *)) ', or, in words :' a relation P is called irreflexive when no object has this relation to itself. 'Irr (Shav)' is thus equipollent to '(x) (~Shav(#,w))' (Sj). Sj means that in B, on that particular day, ...
Rudolf Carnap, 2014
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The Structure of Appearance
We saw also that cf is 0 for every fully self-complete irreflexive predicate. The new postulate enables us to show that q is 0 for every fully symmetric irreflexive predicate,13 since such a predicate will always either be fully self-complete or have ...
Nelson Goodman, 1977
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Non-Archimedean Utility Theory
writing r * for/ ' (a)l<& and r\ for f ' (b)l<% we finally get that a P b implies r*<*r*, i.e. a Qa/*%f=Q*- valued utility function i.w.s. exists. 7.2. Utility Functions in the Narrower Sense Let A be a set and let ft be a class of irreflexive linear orderings 91, ...
Heinz J. Skala, 1975
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A New Introduction to Modal Logic
173, that there are irreflexive models for T. The procedure we used for constructing the irreflexive model on p. 173 can in fact be generalized.' For if we take any reflexive world in any model, i.e., any world which can see itself, and replace it by ...
M.J. Cresswell, G.E. Hughes, 2012
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Logics in Artificial Intelligence: 12th European Conference, ...
Validity of a formula in a topological space and class of topological spaces is defined in a standard way Fact 12 Let (W,R) be a finite, weakly-transitive and irreflexive frame and let (W,Ω R) be its Alexandrof space. For every modal formula α the ...
Tomi Janhunen, Ilkka Niemelä, 2010

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «IRREFLEXIVE»

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The Y2Gay Problem
Because marriage is not just an irreflexive binary relation; it's a transitive, irreflexive, binary relation. If Jeff is married to Elizabeth, and Elizabeth ... «Boing Boing, Jun 15»
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How to: archive and back up photos
... vulturine irreflexive cantina teopans snuffers calzoons ceremonious .... acrophonetic uneaseful elytroplastic irreflexive geomance longyi ... «What Digital Camera, Sep 10»
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Time for a reset in US-Mexican relations
Given his own domestic distractions and foreign policy priorities, Obama would probably also prefer to simply reaffirm that irreflexive or ... «Washington Post, May 10»
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