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Questions of the kind "What's the name for a X that satisfies property Y?"
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Name of vertices in the same orbit
The same terminology is used for edges. You will find that there is a lot of literature on the problem of constructing large sets of pseudosimilar vertices or edges. … Unfortunately searching for "similar vertices" is more likely to bring up results that are more devoted to pseudosimilarity, so it's not very efficient for your goal, but it does seem to be the most common terminology …
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Ethio Integers?
These unnamed numbers were famous enough to make it to A Mathematician's Apology. After mentioning what you wrote above Hardy writes:
These are odd facts, very suitable for puzzle columns and like …
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Is there a standard name for the intersection of all maximal linearly independent subsets of...
For a matroid the elements that are contained in every basis are called coloops, dual to the notion of a loop, which is an element not contained in any basis. Since you are interested in linearly inde …
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Name for an inequality of isoperimetric type
This inequality is essentially equivalent to the Classical isoperimetric inequality. If you have a measurable body $X$ in $\mathbb{R}^n$ and a ball $B\subset \mathbb R^n$ of same volume then you have …
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Terminology for relation on sets
I don't know if there is any better terminology but such families of sets (either disjoint or containing one another) are said to form a Laminar family or a hierarchical system. …
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What is this operation on graphs called?
This suggests the terminology "$v$ to $H$ expansion", and then you could define "$H$ to $v$ contraction" similarly (unfortunately I don't think this is standard). …
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Name of the sum of the $k$-wise product of distinct integers from $1$ to $n$
These are the Stirling numbers of the first kind. They enumerate, among other things, the number of permutations with a given number of cycles.
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What's tropical about tropical algebra?
A lot of sources mention that the adjective "tropical" is given in honor of Imre Simon, but it seems hard to find who precisely coined the term. I found some sources which attribute this to some Frenc …
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Why are parabolic subgroups called "parabolic subgroups"?
To quote from chapter VI section 2:
...There was no nice terminology for the subgroups $P _I$ with lie algebra the $\mathfrak p _I$ until R. Godement suggested calling them parabolic subgroups. …
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What are these recursively defined sequences called?
The evaluation of your sequence is equivalent to the evaluation of certain weighted sums over binary trees. The resulting identities are often called hook length formulas.
Suppose $\mathcal B_n$ denot …