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Questions of the kind "What's the name for a X that satisfies property Y?"

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Simple adjective for "of the size of a proper class"?

I nominate "too big". Gerhard "Ask Me About System Design" Paseman, 2011.03.08
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What is the term for combining functions $f_1,f_2,\dots,f_n$ into a tuple $(f_1,\dots,f_n)$?

Perhaps you can take inspiration from computer science. In "APL: an interactive approach", Gilman and Rose talk about the catenation and lamination operators for joining together appropriately shaped …
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Describe the desired features of a "Mathematics Colloquium"?

A great mathematics colloquium is one which satisfies many if not all of its goals, and may have additional benefits which make it great. A list of potential goals/benefits: accessibility: many if …
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Better terminology than "equivalence class of functions"

For ease of exposition, it is often good to supress those parameters that do not vary often. In the fragment suggested by Tom LaGatta in the comments, there is enough explanatory information and samp …
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