associated prime

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associated prime (plural associated primes)

  1. (algebra, of a module over a ring ) A ideal of which is the annihilator of some prime submodule of .
    1. (commutative algebra) If the ring is commutative, equivalently: A prime ideal of which is the annihilator of some element of .