Abelian

[ uh-bee-lee-uhn, uh-beel-yuhn ]

adjective

, Mathematics.

1. of or relating to Niels Henrik Abel or his theorems.
2. pertaining to an algebraic system in which an operation is commutative:

   an Abelian group.

3. pertaining to such an operation.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Abelian¹

First recorded in 1905–10; Abel + -ian

Example Sentences

Among the speakers were 21 women - six heads of state, four heads of government, one vice president, nine ministers and one vice minister, Abelian told reporters.

From Reuters

Of the 189 member countries who spoke there were 88 heads of state and 42 heads of government, said senior U.N. official Movses Abelian.

From Reuters

Gohar Abelian took in three kids abandoned by her sister, a swindler who fled to Montenegro, but cannot retrieve the $100,000 in bail she posted, judge rules.

From Los Angeles Times

It was the second time she’d come to the rescue since the children’s parents, Richard Ayvazyzn and Abelian’s sister Marietta Terabelian, were arrested in 2020 for running an $18-million pandemic relief scam: To keep the couple out of jail, Abelian had spent more than $100,000 on bail bonds.

From Los Angeles Times

Abelian lost all of that money after the couple, by then convicted, jumped bail, leaving a goodbye note for the kids at the Tarzana mansion they bought with stolen money and taking a private jet to a picturesque Montenegrin town where they lived incognito for nearly six months in a posh seaside villa.

From Los Angeles Times