relative complement
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relative complement (plural relative complements)
- (set theory, of set A "in" set B) The set containing exactly those elements belonging to B but not to A.
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- In mathematical expressions, the relative complement of A in B is denoted B ∖ A according to the ISO 31-11 standard (sometimes written B − A, but this notation is ambiguous, as in some contexts it can be interpreted as the set of all b − a, where b is taken from B and a from A).
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set of elements contained in one set but not another
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