non-Archimedean

English

Etymology

From non- +‎ Archimedean.

Adjective

non-Archimedean (not comparable)

  1. (mathematics, of an ordered field) Not having the Archimedean property: containing infinite elements, i.e. elements which are larger than any result of adding 1 to itself any finite number of times.
  2. (mathematics, of a metric) Meeting the requirements to be an ultrametric.

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