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- adjective mathematics Two
objects , especially systems ofaxioms orsemantics for them, are called cryptomorphic if they are equivalent (possibly in some informal sense) but not obviously equivalent.
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Coined by Garrett Birkhoff before 1967, for use in the third edition of his book Lattice Theory.
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