NONEMPTY Definition & Meaning

nonempty

[ non-emp-tee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

Mathematics.

(of a set, group, collection, etc.) containing at least one element.

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Origin of nonempty¹

First recorded in 1935–40; non- + empty

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Example Sentences

One way of formalizing the idea is the following statement: Every nonempty subset of the real numbers that has an upper bound has a least upper bound.

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This axiom, which most mathematicians use in their work, says that one can choose a single element of every set in a collection of nonempty sets.

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