CARTESIAN PRODUCT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cartesian product mean? 

• CARTESIAN PRODUCT (noun)
  The noun CARTESIAN PRODUCT has 1 sense:

1. the set of elements common to two or more sets

  Familiarity information: CARTESIAN PRODUCT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARTESIAN PRODUCT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The set of elements common to two or more sets

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Cartesian product; intersection; product

Context example:

the set of red hats is the intersection of the set of hats and the set of red things

Hypernyms ("Cartesian product" is a kind of...):

set (a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used)