first-order

English

Adjective

first-order (not comparable)

1. (mathematics, logic) Describing the simplest of many models, languages, relationship, forms of logical discourse etc, or the first in a numerical sequence of such things.

Derived terms

first-order approximation first-order control first-order difference first-order election first-order fluid first-order function first-order hold first-order levelling first-order logic first-order ordinary differential

first-order predicate first-order reaction first-order relief first-order spectrum first-order station first-order subroutine first-order theory first-order transition first-order variable

Related terms

• second-order

Translations

describing the simplest of many

• Dutch: eersteorde-