noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A set V (whose elements are called vertices or nodes), taken together with a multiset E, each of whose elements (called an edge or hyperedge) is a subset of V.

Etymology

From multi- + hypergraph. Compare multigraph.

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