Informally put, the axiom of choice says that given any collection of bins, each containing at least one object, it is possible to make a selection of exactly one object from each bin.

Informally, it is a permutation of the group elements such that the structure remains unchanged.

Informally, it is the similarity between observations as a function of the time separation between them.

Informally, an object is reachable if it is referenced by at least one variable in the program, either directly or through references from other reachable objects.

Informally, a relational database table is often described as " normalized " if it is in the Third Normal Form.

Informally, a graph is a good expander if it has low degree and high expansion parameters.

Informally, Kajang is known as the " Satay Town ", and is famous among tourists and locals alike.

Informally we can think of elements of the Lie algebra as elements of the group that are " infinitesimally close " to the identity, and the Lie bracket is something to do with the commutator of two such infinitesimal elements.

Informally, a measure has the property of being monotone function | monotone in the sense that if A is a subset of B, the measure of A is less than or equal to the measure of B.

Informally, word formation rules form " new words " ( that is, new lexemes ), while inflection rules yield variant forms of the " same " word ( lexeme ).

Informally speaking, the prime number theorem states that if a random integer is selected in the range of zero to some large integer N, the probability that the selected integer is prime is about 1 / ln ( N ), where ln ( N ) is the natural logarithm of N. For example, among the positive integers up to and including N = 10 < sup > 3 </ sup > about one in seven numbers is prime, whereas up to and including N = 10 < sup > 10 </ sup > about one in 23 numbers is prime ( where ln ( 10 < sup > 3 </ sup >)= 6. 90775528. and ln ( 10 < sup > 10 </ sup >)= 23. 0258509 ).

Informally, he may have been known as " Dickon ", according to a sixteenth-century legend of a note, warning of treachery, that was sent to the Duke of Norfolk on the eve of Bosworth: " Jack of Norffolke be not to bolde ,/ For Dyckon thy maister is bought and solde ".

Informally the word is also used to describe a procedure or process with a specific purpose.

Informally, a permutation of a set of objects is an arrangement of those objects into a particular order.

Informally, a set of strategies is a Nash equilibrium if no player can do better by unilaterally changing his or her strategy.

Informally, a soundness theorem for a deductive system expresses that all provable sentences are true.

Informally, this means that arguments of this form do not give good reason to establish their conclusions, even if their premises are true.

Informally, this is the argument that the ( alleged ) difference between " what can be mechanically proven " and " what can be seen to be true by humans " shows that human intelligence is not mechanical in nature.

Informally, a loop invariant is a statement of the conditions that should be true on entry into a loop and that are guaranteed to remain true on every iteration of the loop.

Informally, this is true because a polynomial-time algorithm can make polynomially many queries to other polynomial-time algorithms, retaining its polynomial running time.

( Informally, this reversal occurs because the refined type is " more liberal " in the types it accepts and " more conservative " in the type it returns.

In other words, L can be solved in polynomial time by an oracle machine with an oracle for H. Informally, we can think of an algorithm that can call such an oracle machine as a subroutine for solving H, and solves L in polynomial time, if the subroutine call takes only one step to compute.

Informally, a skein relation gives a linear relation between the values of a knot polynomial on a collection of three links which differ from each other only in a small region.

Informally, a language L is in MA if for all strings in the language, there is a polynomial sized proof that Merlin can send Arthur to convince him of this fact with high probability, and for all strings not in the language there is no proof that convinces Arthur with high probability.

Informally, these theorems say that given more time, a Turing machine can solve more problems.

Informally, a flow may be viewed as a continuous motion of points over time.

Informally known as " The Big Book " ( with its first 164 pages virtually unchanged since the 1939 edition ), it suggests a twelve-step program in which members admit that they are powerless over alcohol and need help from a " higher power "; seek guidance and strength through prayer and meditation from God or Higher Power of their own understanding ; take a moral inventory with care to include resentments ; list and become ready to remove character defects ; list and make amends to those harmed, and then try to help other alcoholics recover.

Informally basis vectors are like " building blocks of a vector ", they are added together to make a vector, and the coordinates are the number of basis vectors in each direction.

Such a definition can be formulated in terms of equivalence classes of smooth functions on M. Informally, we will say that two smooth functions f and g are equivalent at a point x if they have the same first-order behavior near x.

Informally, the term measure word is also sometimes used to refer to numeral classifiers, which are used with nouns that are countable in some languages.

Informally, such Brachyceran larvae are called maggots, but the term is nontechnical and often applied indifferently to fly larvae or insect larvae in general.

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Informally, a set of natural numbers A is Turing reducible to a set B if there is an oracle machine that correctly tells whether numbers are in A when run with B as the oracle set ( in this case, the set A is also said to be ( relatively ) computable from B and recursive in B ).

Informally, classes are also traditionally named after their lead ships.

Informally, the reconstruction conjecture in graph theory says that graphs are determined uniquely by their subgraphs.

Informally, senators are sometimes given the higher title of ' Venerable '.

Informally, the terms C standard library or C library or libc are also used to designate a particular implementation on a given system.

Informally, this means that differentiable functions are very atypical among continuous functions.

Informally, a free object over a set A can be thought as being a " generic " algebraic structure over A: the only equations that hold between elements of the free object are those that follow from the defining axioms of the algebraic structure.

Informally, subvarieties are in general position if they cannot be described more simply than others.

Informally, two sets are close in the Hausdorff distance if every point of either set is close to some point of the other set.

Informally, two crystals tend to be in the same crystal system if they have similar symmetries, though there are many exceptions to this.

Informally, given the prime factorization of m, take b to be the product of the prime factors of m that have an odd exponent ( if there are none, then take b to be 1 ).

Informally, medical graduates are called " Doctors.