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maximal ideal

noun Mathematics.

an ideal in a ring that is not included in any other ideal except the ring itself.

Origin:
1960–65

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one of the positive or negative numbers 1, 2, 3, or zero

the second power of a quantity, expressed as a2 = a ? a, where a is the quantity

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