Associations to the word «Hyperreal»

Wiktionary

HYPERREAL, adjective. Of or pertaining to philosophical hyperreality; perceivable as real by consciousness, though potentially unreal.
HYPERREAL, adjective. (mathematics) (of a number) Belonging to an extension of the real numbers containing those that cannot be produced by repeatedly adding 1; hence infinite.
HYPERREAL, noun. A hyperreal number.
HYPERREAL NUMBER, noun. (mathematics) Any of a set of numbers which extends the set of real numbers by including infinitesimals and infinities, and is used in nonstandard analysis.
HYPERREAL NUMBERS, noun. Plural of hyperreal number

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky