multichain

English

Etymology

multi- +‎ chain

Adjective

multichain (not comparable)

  1. (chemistry) Of or pertaining to more than one chain.
    multichain polyamino acids

Noun

multichain (plural multichains)

  1. A Markov chain consisting of two or more closed sets of recurrent states plus (optionally) a set of states that do not belong to any of the closed sets.
    • 2016, Theodore J. Sheskin, Markov Chains and Decision Processes for Engineers and Managers, page 24:
      A multichain with transient states is called a reducible multichain.
  2. An ordered subset of a poset; a generalization of a chain that allows inequalities that are not strict.
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