The quality or state of being competent, i.e. able or suitable for a general role.
The quality or state of being able or suitable for a particular task; the quality or state of being competent for a particular task or skill.
The system of linguistic knowledge possessed by native speakers of a language, as opposed to its actual use in concrete situations (performance), cf. linguistic competence.
the legal authority to deal with a matter.
The degree to which a rock is resistant to deformation or flow.
A perfect standard of beauty, intellect etc., or a standard of excellence to aim at.
A subsemigroup with the property that if any semigroup element outside of it is added to any one of its members, the result must lie outside of it.
A subring closed under multiplication by its containing ring.
A non-empty lower set (of a partially ordered set) which is closed under binary suprema (a.k.a. joins).
A collection of sets, considered small or negligible, such that every subset of each member and the union of any two members are also members of the collection.
A Lie subalgebra (subspace that is closed under the Lie bracket) 𝖍 of a given Lie algebra 𝖌 such that the Lie bracket [𝖌,𝖍] is a subset of 𝖍.
Not actually present, but considered as present when limits at infinity are included.
Optimal; being the best possibility.
Existing only in the mind; conceptual, imaginary.
Pertaining to ideas, or to a given idea.
Perfect, flawless, having no defects.
Teaching or relating to the doctrine of idealism.