English Words: G
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A type of correspondence between partially ordered sets (posets), also applicable to preordered sets.
An algebraic extension that is both a normal and a separable extension; equivalently, an algebraic extension E/F such that the fixed field of its automorphism group (Galois group) Aut(E/F) is the base field F.
The branch of mathematics dealing with Galois groups, Galois fields, and polynomial equations. It provides a link between field theory and group theory: it permits certain problems in the former to be reduced to the latter, which in some respects is simpler and better understood.
A lively French country dance of the nineteenth century, a forerunner of the polka, combining a glissade with a chassé on alternate feet, usually in a fast 2/4 time.
Reminiscent of the character John Galt, an individualist philosopher and inventor who stands in opposition to a collectivist socioeconomic structure in Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged (1957).
A device in which small objects tumble through a set of pegs, coming to rest in a pattern that approximates a normal distribution.
The difficulty in drawing inferences from cross-cultural data, due to the statistical phenomenon of autocorrelation.
A branching stochastic process arising from the statistical investigation of the extinction of family names, which are modelled as patrilineal, while offspring are randomly either male or female, and names become extinct if holders die without male descendants. It is useful in understanding human Y-chromosome DNA haplogroups.
Any of the genus Galtonia of plants in the family Asparagaceae, native to southern Africa.
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The English alphabetical index for the letter G contains 18,276 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 366 pages, and you are currently viewing page 20. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.
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