sofic

English

Etymology

Coined by mathematician Benjamin Weiss in 1973, based on Hebrew ⁧סופי⁩ (“finite”).

Adjective

sofic (not comparable)

  1. (mathematics, of a group) Whose Cayley graph is an initially subamenable graph.
  2. (mathematics) Whose forbidden words form a regular language.
    a sofic subshift

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