ALL meanings of distributive lattice
- noun Technical meaning of distributive lattice (theory) A lattice for which the least upper bound (lub) and greatest lower bound (glb) operators distribute over one another so that a lub (b glb c) == (a lub c) glb (a lub b) and vice versa. ("lub" and "glb" are written in LateX as \sqcup and \sqcap). 1
- noun distributive lattice (algebra) A lattice in which the "meet" and the "join" operations are distributive with respect to each other. 0