Today, the term refers to a specific body of knowledge the deductive study of quantity, structure, space, and change. Let, be a probability space and x be a metric space. Portmanteau meaning in the cambridge english dictionary. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. Notes on convergence of probability measures by billingsly 1 weak.
Ive only got one word for you portmanteau addicts joel. Another type of blend words, which are less common than portmanteaus in english, is formed by taking the first part of one word, the first part of another word, and merging them into one word. By signing up, youll get thousands of stepbystep solutions to your homework questions. Portmanteau noun the noun portmanteau has 2 senses 1. Statements consisting only of original research should be removed. The part of the portmanteau theorem im asking about says that for a sequ. Asymptotic theory of statistics and probability anirban. What does portmanteau mean definition of portmanteau. The first portmanteau horror was produced in 1945, by ealing studios, better known for their comedy films. Search the history of over 434 billion web pages on the internet. X is a sequence of random variables then x n is said to converge weakly or in distribution or in law to x as n. Whether youve loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them.
The word comes from french porter carry and manteau mantle, or cloak so its what you carry your clothes in. Indeed the key result, which is often called the portmanteau lemma, gives a. A portmanteau is a word that is formed by combining two different terms to create a new entity. Hence, the term portmanteau or large traveling trunk. Portmanteau test, in statistics, a test applied to autocorrelations of a time series. Portmanteau word word blending the sound of two different words 1882, coined by lewis. But portmanteau, its combining two established words to. The wakes hybridist nature extends beyond genre, even beyond portmanteau words, indeed to the most atomic level of text it is written in a unique and extremely difficult style, making use of puns and portmanteau words, and a very wide range of allusion this term is much less comprehensible to us now that the literal sense of portmanteau has gone out of use. A word formed by merging the sounds and meanings of two different words, as chortle, from chuckle and snort. A2swith a na 0, where a is the closure and a the interior of a.
The book concludes with numerous results related to limit theorems for. Portmanteau originally meant a type of suitcase with two separate parts for storage. Paper presented at the optimality theory workshop, johns hopkins university, nov 2012 two types of portmanteau agreement. Portmanteau word definition in the cambridge english. The first use as a word combination appeared in lewis carrolls book through the lookingglass. Featured texts all books all texts latest this just in smithsonian libraries fedlink us genealogy lincoln collection. Portmanteau word simple english wikipedia, the free. Measure and integration theory by heinz bauer, robert b. Though, cocacolonization is an actual portmanteau in modern usage. Portmanteau theorem for unbounded measures internet archive. Portmanteau inhibitor, in pharmaceuticals, a drug which molecularly combines the active portions of two inhibitorclass drugs.
The main result of this paper is a theorem of portmanteau type for pseudoweak convergent sequences of capacity functionals for a sequence of random closed sets. The portmanteau theorem does not seem to be stated in this form in billingsley or other classical references that i checked. In the proof that follows, we only use one type of function, so any subset. June 2019 learn how and when to remove this template message. With the main results being luzins theorem, the riesz representation theorem, the portmanteau theorem, and a characterization of locally compact spaces. A portmanteau film is an anthology of story segments, laced together by a central premise. In linguistics, a portmanteau is a single morph that is. A large leather suitcase that opens into two hinged compartments. I must have signed it out of the school library a dozen times at two or three different schools, and even the copy i own today is an old library discard.
Coined by thomas vander wal, it is a portmanteau of folk and taxonomy. List of portmanteau words synonyms, list of portmanteau words pronunciation, list of portmanteau words translation, english dictionary definition of list of portmanteau words. Portmanteau word, also called blend, a word that results from blending two or more words, or parts of words, such that the portmanteau word expresses some combination of the meaning of its parts. But those are all examples of a portmanteau, which is when you blend two words together to make one new word with a singular meaning. A system of classification derived from the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content. See more ideas about words, just for laughs and social media explained. It comes from putting two or more other words together, like motel, from motor and hotel. An important theorem in probability theory about weak convergence of measures is the portmanteau theorem.
It gives several equivalent characterizations of weak convergence. Portmanteau definition and meaning collins english. I didnt even know what a portmanteau was before jukebox hero. For the details which are rather long to explain, see the wikipedia page. In short, the idea dawns that the one universal principle which possibly. Statement 4 implies statement 3 since continuous functions are measurable. I was a weird kid, and the portmanteau book is a weird book. For that purpose the classical lebesgue integral had been substituted with a more general one, known as general pseudointegral, and there is introduced the pseudoweak convergence of capacity functionals. P in the sense of weak convergence of measures on x, as defined above see also. Buy measure and integration theory by heinz bauer, robert b burckel translator online at alibris. We use cookies to enhance your experience on our website, including to provide targeted advertising and track usage. Cajoris a history of mathematics 1894 was the first popular presentation of the history of mathematics in the united states.
It was used to describe a sunday meal to solve the issue of saturdaynight partgoers having to get up early for breakfast on sunday. Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations. X, one often uses instead of weak convergence of n to the terminology that the x. A portmanteau is either an item of luggage or a word that is a blend of two others e. The portmanteau book was one of my favorite books as a child.
Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more. The portmanteau theorem concerns with weak convergence of probability measures on a topological space. Through blending the sounds and meanings of two existing words, a portmanteau creates a new expression that is a linguistic blend of the two individual terms. Weak convergence and the portmanteau lemma eventually. Weak convergence of sequences of distorted probabilities. Its a mashup of our names, like brangelina or robsten. The area of study known as the history of mathematics is primarily an investigation into the. This theorem shows that a whole bunch of conditions are equivalent. This book covers the period from antiquity to the close of world war i, with major emphasis on advanced mathematics and, in particular, the advanced mathematics of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
If you read us weekly or tmz, you know all about portmanteaus. History of mathematics wikibooks, open books for an open. This theorem shows us that the probability measure is determined entirely by its action on. For example breathalyzer is the portmanteau word formed from combining breath. The majority on this list were the product of one film company, amicus, who presided over the golden age of the portmanteau horror. Definition of portmanteauword noun in oxford advanced learners dictionary. A possible reference for the direct implication is theorem a. In this paper, the portmanteau theorem which provides the equivalent conditions of the weak convergence of a sequence of probability measures is extended on the sequence of. Advances in ot syntax and semantics, edited by geraldine legendre, michael putnam, and erin zaroukian. Portmanteau film, a film made up of several short films that interrelate. Scholastic teachables worksheets, lesson plans, learning games, and more. According to the oxford english dictionary the word punch was coined by punch magazine in 1895. Does the portmanteau theorem relate to an actual portmanteau somehow. The result that i find so far is established for weak convergence of probability measures please see portmanteau theorem page 11.
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