MOP Dictionary

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aalii \ah' lee\
n. ('00) A vowel-bearing tree.

Abbott scratch \ab' et skrach'\
n. ('02) Ludicrously extensive scratch work turned in during the ELMO.

aerobie \air oh' bee, air' oh bee\
n. ('00) A frisbee-like object, often thrown on inaccessibly high roofs.

Aleph-null \a' lef nuhl'\
n. ('02) The cardinality of the set of Anders' juggling balls; known to be greater than or equal to 19, and, in fact, conjectured to be equal to 19.

all your \ahl' yohr'\
base. ('01) Are belong to us.

AM-GM \am' gam\
n. 1. ('00, '02) abbr. The Arithmetic Mean-Geometric Mean inequality, a popular inequality used in bunching. 2. ('00) abbr. All Girls, All Math, a group of hard-studying girls who do modular arithmetic (also: AG-AM). 3. ('02) abbr. All Math, Guys Mostly (see: MOP). 4. ('02) Obscure inequality stating that MOP > AG-AM.
vt. ('00) To apply the AM-GM inequality.
ant. ('00) Cauchy.

anagram tiles \an' e gram' tilez'\
n. ('01) A set of scrabble tiles in which the second blank is an S.

Antarctica \ant ark' tih kuh\
n. ('00) A southerly continent with no native population but two internationally competing math teams.

apple \a' pel\
n. 1. ('00) A thing to be counted in a problem of Gabe's lecture. 2. ('01) A silver medal.

Axiom of Choice \ak' see em ev chois'\
n. ('02) A diabolical device used in the torture of innocent spheres, capable of cutting up sets arbitrarily with no regard to their volume.