GREATEST LOWER BOUND


Meaning of GREATEST LOWER BOUND in English

< theory > (glb, meet, infimum) The greatest lower bound of two elements, a and b is an element c such that c The greatest lower bound of a set S is the greatest element b such that for all s in S, b glb is the dual to least upper bound .

(In LaTeX " \sqsubseteq , the glb of two elements a and b is written as a \sqcap b and the glb of set S as \bigsqcap S).

(1995-02-03)

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