Mathematical English Usage - a Glossary

by Jerzy Trzeciak

permit

[sth; sb to do sth; see also: admit, allow, enable]

This will permit us to demonstrate that...... [Not: “permit to demonstrate'']

This permits the extension of boundary estimates to systems......

Section 6 contains a formula which permits transfer of the results in Section 2 to sums of independent random variables.

Note that m is permitted to vary with the number of inputs.


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