coatom

English

Noun

coatom (plural coatoms)

  1. (mathematics) In a partially ordered set, a non-unit element that has no element above it other than the unit (assuming that the poset has a top element, its "unit").
    In a Boolean lattice, the complement of an atom is a coatom.

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