Mathematical English Usage - a Glossary

by Jerzy Trzeciak

legitimate

[see also: justify, meaningful]

Theorem 2 makes it legitimate to apply integration by parts.

The definition is legitimate because......

The interchange in the order of integration was legitimate, since......

In the preceding proof, the appeal to the dominated convergence theorem may seem to be illegitimate, since......


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