In word formation an elliptic determinative compound in which the second element of a three-element compound is dropped, e.g. shoe (repair) shop. In contrast to fore-clippings and back-clippings ( clipping), such elliptic forms can develop directly...

In mathematics, a modular form is a (complex) analytic function on the upper half-plane satisfying a certain kind of functional equation and growth condition. The theory of modular forms therefore belongs to complex analysis but the main importance of...