cartesian product

1. 1.

   the set of elements common to two or more sets

   “the set of red hats is the intersection of the set of hats and the set of red things”

   Synonymsintersectionproduct

   Broaderset

Questions about cartesian product

What does cartesian product mean?

cartesian product means "the set of elements common to two or more sets".

What is another word for cartesian product?

Close synonyms include intersection, product. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cartesian product a common word?

cartesian product is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.