Biset
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Biset is a noun meaning (mathematics) A pair of ordered sets of the same magnitude.
Meaning
(mathematics) A pair of ordered sets of the same magnitude.
More Meanings
- A species of pigeon, Columba livia.
Example Sentences
The bisque was a soup of the biset — with the biset added to it in the tureen together with a ragout or relish.
Buffon, in accordance with his whimsical idea of referring foreign species to those of Europe, considers the present as a variety of the biset (Columba livia, Briss.
This supposition is doubtless erroneous, as we do not find among them any indications of such an origin, and the ringdove, will not propagate with the biset, even in a state of captivity.
Four varietles of pigeon still exist in a wild state in France—the biset, the wood pigeon, the rock pigeon, and the turtledove. The biset variety is the foundation of all domesticated varieties in France.
Word Forms
- bisets
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include bistatistics, bitensor, doubleton, bifunction, parity, binomial.
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