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integral domain

noun

Definition of INTEGRAL DOMAIN

:  a mathematical ring in which multiplication is commutative, which has a multiplicative identity element, and which contains no pair of nonzero elements whose product is zero <the integers under the operations of addition and multiplication form an integral domain>
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First Known Use of INTEGRAL DOMAIN

1937

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