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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
(n.)
Alt. of Abelonian
  
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abelian
\a*bel"i*an\ (&?;), abelite \a"bel*ite\ (&?;), abelonian \a`bel*o"ni*an\ (&?;), ] n. (eccl. hist.) one of a sect in africa (4th century), mentioned by st. augustine, who states that they married, but lived in continence, after the manner, as they pretended, of abel.

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In mathematics, Abelian refers to any of number of different mathematical concepts named after Niels Henrik Abel:
Group theory
  • Abelian group, a group in which the binary operation is commutative
    • Category of abelian groups Ab has abelian groups as objects and group homomorphisms as morphisms
  • Metabelian group is a group where the commutator subgroup is abelian
  • Abelianisation

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