noun
- plural of subring; in mathematics, rings that are subsets of larger rings and satisfy the ring axioms
Usage: mathematics; algebra
Examples
- The integers form one of the most important subrings of the real numbers.
- In abstract algebra, students learn to identify subrings within polynomial rings.
- The professor asked us to find all subrings of the ring of integers modulo 12.
- These subrings inherit the addition and multiplication operations from the parent ring.
- Maximal subrings play a crucial role in ring theory.
- The intersection of two subrings is always another subring.