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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A reflexive, symmetric, and transitive relationship between elements of a set, such as congruence for the set of all triangles in a plane.
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- noun set theory A
binary relation that isreflexive ,symmetric andtransitive .
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