OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 48983

preimage

Meanings (ES + gloss)
antiimagen • contraimagen • imagen inversa
For a given function, the set of all elements of the domain that are mapped into a given subset of the codomain; (formally) given a function ƒ : X → Y and a subset B ⊆ Y, the set ƒ⁻¹(B) = {x ∈ X : ƒ(x) ∈ B}.
1967 [Academic Press], Francois Treves, Topological Vector Spaces, Distributions and Kernels, 2006, Dover, page 22, The preimage of a neighborhood U of 0 in E must be a neighborhoo…
The preimage of #92;#123;4,9#92;#125; under the function f#58;#92;R#92;rightarrow#92;R#58;f(x)#61;x² is the set #92;#123;-3,-2,#43;2,#43;3#92;#125;.
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