Adicity

Quick meaning: Adicity is a noun meaning (chemistry, obsolete) Valence.

Meaning

(chemistry, obsolete) Valence.

More Meanings

1. (logic, mathematics, computer science) The number of arguments or operands a function or operation takes. For a relation, the number of domains in the corresponding Cartesian product.

Example Sentences

What can be predicted is that the adicity of any syntactic predicate is the same: since its adicity is a grammatical and not a thematic fact, semantic differences between predicates cannot affect their grammatical structure.

2007, Helier J. Robinson, Relation Philosophy of Mathematics, Science, and Mind, Sharebooks Publishing, 2nd Edition, page 68, We have seen that every relation, without exception, necessarily has a term set, and the necessary properties of simplicity and an adicity: relations without these are impossible, merely nominal.

Word Forms

• adicities

Synonyms for adicity

Depending on context, synonyms include adinity, arity, type, rank.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include arity, function, variadic, domain, dyadic, degree.

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