PARENTHESIS-FREE NOTATION

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does parenthesis-free notation mean? 

• PARENTHESIS-FREE NOTATION (noun)
  The noun PARENTHESIS-FREE NOTATION has 1 sense:

1. a notation for forming mathematical expressions that does not use parentheses to delimit components

  Familiarity information: PARENTHESIS-FREE NOTATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PARENTHESIS-FREE NOTATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A notation for forming mathematical expressions that does not use parentheses to delimit components

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("parenthesis-free notation" is a kind of...):

mathematical notation (a notation used by mathematicians)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "parenthesis-free notation"):

Lukasiewicz notation; Polish notation; prefix notation (a parenthesis-free notation for forming mathematical expressions in which each operator precedes its operands)

postfix notation; reverse Polish notation; suffix notation (a parenthesis-free notation for forming mathematical expressions in which each operator follows its operands)