Abelian

[uh-bee-lee-uh n, uh-beel-yuh n]

adjective Mathematics.

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

Origin of Abelian

First recorded in 1905–10; Abel + -ian

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A group whose operations are all permutable with each other is called an Abelian group.
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An Abelian group contains subgroups whose orders are any given factors of the order of the group.
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