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altermatic

/ˌɔl.təɹˈmæt.ɪk/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
al-ter-mat-ic
IPA
/ˌɔl.təɹˈmæt.ɪk/
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Describing a certain combinatorial lower bound of a chromatic number of a graph.

Example Sentences

Etymology

Coined by mathematicians Meysam Alishahiand and Hossein Hajiabolhassan in 2014 for the 2015 paper "On the chromatic number of general Kneser hypergraphs" as a blend of alternating + chromatic on the grounds that the chromatic bound is given by a longest subsequence in which every pair of consecutive terms differs (loosely, the subsequence "alternates").

Regional Pronunciation

  • American English: /ˌɔl.təɹˈmæt.ɪk/
  • British English: /ˌɒl.təˈmæt.ɪk/

Rhymes With

nonmetachromatic herostratic quasimonochromatic thermochromatic kinechromatic ptygmatic chorochromatic dyschromatic chromocratic oncostatic interzygomatic retrozygomatic

Questions

How do you pronounce altermatic?
The recorded pronunciation is /ˌɔl.təɹˈmæt.ɪk/.
What does altermatic mean?
Describing a certain combinatorial lower bound of a chromatic number of a graph.
Where does altermatic come from?
Coined by mathematicians Meysam Alishahiand and Hossein Hajiabolhassan in 2014 for the 2015 paper "On the chromatic number of general Kneser hypergraphs" as a blend of alternating + chromatic on the grounds that the chromatic bound is given by a longest subsequence in which every pair of consecutive terms differs (loosely, the subsequence "alternates").

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