matroid

Etymology
From. They were so named by in 1935 in an article titled &ldquo;| On the abstract properties of linear dependence&rdquo;.

Noun

 * 1)  A structure that captures the essence of a notion of "independence" that generalizes linear independence in vector spaces and acyclicality in graphs.

Translations

 * Finnish: matroidi
 * French:
 * Italian: matroide