symmetric group

English

Noun

symmetric group (plural symmetric groups)

1. (mathematics) A group whose elements are precisely all of the bijections of some set with itself and whose operation is composition of those bijections.

Meronyms

• alternating group

Translations

mathematics: a group whose elements are precisely all of the bijections of some set with itself and whose operation is composition of those bijections

• Finnish: symmetrinen ryhmä
• Icelandic: samhverf grúpa f