Phrase Hound found 17 phrases and 13 compound words that contain lemma. The most common are listed below. Open lemma in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 17
- Yoneda lemmaGiven a category 𝒞 with an object A, let H be a hom functor represented by A, and let F be any functor (not necessarily representable) from 𝒞 to Sets, then there is a natural isomorphism between Nat(H,F), the set of natural transformations …
- pumping lemmaA lemma which states that for a language to be a member of a language class any sufficiently long string in the language contains a section that can be removed or repeated any number of times with the resulting string remaining in the …
- Margulis lemmaA result about discrete subgroups of isometries of a non-positively curved Riemannian manifold.
- Euclid's lemmaThe proposition that if a prime number p divides an arbitrary product ab of integers, then p divides a or b or both;
- Neyman-Pearson lemmaA lemma stating that when performing a hypothesis test between two point hypotheses H₀: θ = θ₀ and H₁: θ = θ₁, then the likelihood-ratio test which rejects H₀ in favour of H₁ when Λ(x)=(L(θ₀∣x))/(L(θ₁∣x))≤η where P(Λ(X)≤η∣H_0)=α is the …
- Bézout's lemmaSynonym of Bézout's identity: A theorem in the elementary theory of numbers: let a and b be integers, not both zero, and let d be their greatest common divisor. Then there exist integers x and y such that ax + by = d.
- Johnson-Lindenstrauss lemmaA result concerning low-distortion embeddings of points from high-dimensional into low-dimensional Euclidean space.
- Sperner's lemmaA combinatorial analog of the Brouwer fixed-point theorem, stating that every Sperner coloring of a triangulation of an n-dimensional simplex contains a cell colored with a complete set of colors.
- Stein's lemmaA theorem giving a formula for the covariance of one random variable with the value of a function of another, when the two random variables are jointly normally distributed.
- Teichmüller-Tukey lemmaA lemma stating that every non-empty collection of finite character has a maximal element with respect to inclusion.
- Tukey's lemmaSynonym of Teichmüller-Tukey lemma: A lemma stating that every non-empty collection of finite character has a maximal element with respect to inclusion.
- Urysohn's lemmaA lemma stating that a topological space is normal if and only if any two disjoint closed subsets can be separated by a continuous function.
- Zorn's lemmaA proposition of set theory stating that every partially ordered set, in which every chain (i.e. totally ordered subset) has an upper bound, contains at least one maximal element.
- Riemann-Lebesgue lemmaA lemma, of importance in harmonic analysis and asymptotic analysis, stating that the Fourier transform or Laplace transform of an L1 function vanishes at infinity.
- five lemmaA particular lemma that claims the existence of a particular isomorphism in a commutative diagram given certain other homomorphisms in the diagram.
- Yao's lemmaSynonym of Yao's principle: A principle in computational complexity theory relating the performance of randomized algorithms to deterministic (non-random) algorithms.
- non-lemmaAny form of a lexeme that is not its lemma.
Compound words 13
- dilemmaA circumstance in which a choice must be made between two or more alternatives that seem equally undesirable.
- trilemmaA circumstance in which a choice must be made between three options that seem equally undesirable.
- lemmaticRelating to a lemma.
- pentalemmaAn argument analogous to a dilemma, but involving five alternatives.
- analemmaA figure-eight curve that results when the Sun's position in the sky is plotted out over the year at the same hour of mean solar time every day.
- tutulemmaA photographed analemma that includes an image of a solar eclipse.
- axolemmaThe surface membrane of an axon
- basilemmabasement membrane
- epilemmaSynonym of endoneurium: A layer of delicate connective tissue enclosing the myelin sheath of a spinal cord nerve fiber.
- polylemmaA circumstance in which a choice must be made between multiple options that seem equally undesirable