transitive closure

English

Noun

transitive closure (plural transitive closures)

  1. (set theory, order theory, of a binary relation R on a set X) The smallest binary relation on X that includes R and is transitive.
  2. (set theory, of a set X) The smallest transitive set that contains X.
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