Mathematical English Usage - a Glossary

by Jerzy Trzeciak

diminish

[see also: decrease, lower, reduce]

If any element is removed from an orthonormal set, its span is diminished.

As n decreases, the class of such covers diminishes.

The dimension of a simplex is its cardinality diminished by 1.


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