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Serre's conjecture may refer to: Quillen–Suslin theorem, formerly known as Serre's conjecture Serre's conjecture II, concerning the Galois cohomology of
Serre's_conjecture
Jean-Pierre Serre conjectured the following statement regarding the Galois cohomology of a simply connected semisimple algebraic group. Namely, he conjectured that
Serre's_conjecture_II
Conjecture in number theory
In mathematics, Serre's modularity conjecture, introduced by Jean-Pierre Serre (1975, 1987), states that an odd, irreducible, two-dimensional Galois representation
Serre's_modularity_conjecture
In mathematics, Serre's multiplicity conjectures, named after Jean-Pierre Serre, are certain problems in commutative algebra, motivated by the needs of
Serre's multiplicity conjectures
Serre's_multiplicity_conjectures
(sometimes known as "Serre's Conjecture" or "Serre's problem") Serre's Conjecture concerning Galois representations Serre's "Conjecture II" concerning linear
List of things named after Jean-Pierre Serre
List_of_things_named_after_Jean-Pierre_Serre
French mathematician (born 1926)
contributions were: his "Conjecture II" (still open) on Galois cohomology; his use of group actions on trees (with Hyman Bass); the Borel–Serre compactification;
Jean-Pierre_Serre
17th-century conjecture proved by Andrew Wiles in 1994
In number theory, Fermat's Last Theorem (sometimes called Fermat's conjecture, especially in older texts) states that there are no positive integers a
Fermat's_Last_Theorem
rows are B i {\displaystyle B_{i}} and whose columns are also bases. Serre's conjecture II: if G {\displaystyle G} is a simply connected semisimple algebraic
List of unsolved problems in mathematics
List_of_unsolved_problems_in_mathematics
Indian mathematician (born 1968)
representations and number theory by proving the level 1 Serre conjecture, and later a proof of the full conjecture with Jean-Pierre Wintenberger. He has been on
Chandrashekhar_Khare
Commutative algebra theorem
The Quillen–Suslin theorem, also known as Serre's problem or Serre's conjecture, is a theorem in commutative algebra concerning the relationship between
Quillen–Suslin_theorem
Aharoni-Korman conjecture also known as the fishbone conjecture Atiyah conjecture (not a conjecture to start with) Borsuk's conjecture Bunkbed conjecture Chinese
List_of_conjectures
square given by these maps commutes. Serre's Conjecture on Multiplicities. (cf. Serre's multiplicity conjectures.) Suppose that R is regular of dimension
Homological conjectures in commutative algebra
Homological_conjectures_in_commutative_algebra
Conjecture on zeros of the zeta function
problems in mathematics In mathematics, the Riemann hypothesis is the conjecture that the Riemann zeta function has its zeros only at the negative even
Riemann_hypothesis
Indian mathematician (1887–1920)
others like it that Ramanujan proved) inspired Jean-Pierre Serre (1954 Fields Medalist) to conjecture that there is a theory of Galois representations that
Srinivasa_Ramanujan
Relates rational elliptic curves to modular forms
closer to its goal in 1987 when Jean-Pierre Serre identified a missing link (now known as the epsilon conjecture or Ribet's theorem) in Frey's original work
Modularity_theorem
Unsolved problem in mathematics
In mathematics, the Ramanujan-Petersson conjecture is a conjecture concerning the growth rate of coefficients of modular forms and more generally, automorphic
Ramanujan–Petersson conjecture
Ramanujan–Petersson_conjecture
Belgian mathematician
celebrated Ramanujan–Petersson conjecture for modular forms of weight greater than one; weight one was proved in his work with Serre. Deligne's 1974 paper contains
Pierre_Deligne
Dutch mathematician (1962–2022)
Theorem and the proof of Serre's modularity conjecture. He later made important contributions regarding the André–Oort conjecture, as well as making modular
Bas_Edixhoven
On generating functions from counting points on algebraic varieties over finite fields
proof of Serre (1960) of an analogue of the Weil conjectures for Kähler manifolds, Grothendieck envisioned a proof based on his standard conjectures on algebraic
Weil_conjectures
In geometric topology, the Borel conjecture (named for Armand Borel) asserts that an aspherical closed manifold is determined by its fundamental group
Borel_conjecture
Canadian-American mathematician
the weight part of Serre's conjecture for Hilbert modular forms, and with Matthew Emerton and Toby Gee he proved Breuil's conjecture on local-global compatibility
David_Savitt_(mathematician)
1995 publication in mathematics
more ambitious conjecture, Serre's conjecture on modular Galois representations, which would imply the Taniyama–Shimura–Weil conjecture. However his partial
Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem
Wiles's_proof_of_Fermat's_Last_Theorem
American mathematician (1940–2011)
a proof of Serre's conjecture about the triviality of algebraic vector bundles on affine space, which led to the Bass–Quillen conjecture. He was also
Daniel_Quillen
French mathematician (1954–2019)
number theory, along with Chandrashekhar Khare, for his proof of Serre's modularity conjecture. Wintenberger earned his Ph.D. at Joseph Fourier University
Jean-Pierre_Wintenberger
Result concerning properties of Galois representations associated with modular forms
Ribet's theorem (earlier called the epsilon conjecture or ε-conjecture) is part of number theory. It concerns properties of Galois representations associated
Ribet's_theorem
intersection#Proper intersection. Serre gives the following proof of the inequality, based on the validity of Serre's multiplicity conjectures for formal power series
Serre's_inequality_on_height
Hong Kong-American mathematician
of the American Mathematical Society. Serre’s Conjecture. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Springer, 1978 Serre’s Problem on Projective Modules. Springer
Tsit_Yuen_Lam
Set of conjectures in algebraic geometry
In mathematics, the standard conjectures about algebraic cycles are several conjectures describing the relationship of algebraic cycles and Weil cohomology
Standard conjectures on algebraic cycles
Standard_conjectures_on_algebraic_cycles
Concept in mathematics
coefficient groups M, Ha(k,M). In this direction, Steinberg proved Serre's "Conjecture I": for a connected linear algebraic group G over a perfect field
Reductive_group
Monster and modular connection
allowing physics to form a bridge between two mathematical areas. The conjectures made by Conway and Norton were proven by Richard Borcherds for the moonshine
Monstrous_moonshine
Would relate vector bundles over a regular Noetherian ring and over a polynomial ring
A[t_{1},\dots ,t_{n}]} . The conjecture is named for Hyman Bass and Daniel Quillen, who formulated the conjecture. The conjecture is a statement about finitely
Bass–Quillen_conjecture
Branch of mathematics
Already in 1955, Jean-Pierre Serre had used the analogy of vector bundles with projective modules to formulate Serre's conjecture, which states that every
K-theory
Indian mathematician (born 1948)
doi:10.1007/BF01455449 1976: "Failure of a quadratic analogue of Serre's conjecture", Bulletin of the AMS, vol. 82, pp. 962–964, Colliot-Thélène, J.-L
Raman_Parimala
In number theory, the Stark conjectures, introduced by Stark (1971, 1975, 1976, 1980) and later expanded by Tate (1984), give conjectural information
Stark_conjectures
Awarded every year by the American Mathematical Society
doi:10.1080/00029890.1975.11993832. ISSN 0002-9890. Lam, T. Y. (1978). Serre's Conjecture. Lecture Notes in Mathematics. Vol. 635. Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
Leroy_P._Steele_Prize
Russian mathematician
polynomial rings. In 1976 he and Daniel Quillen independently proved Serre's conjecture about the triviality of algebraic vector bundles on affine space.
Andrei_Suslin
Mathematical function associated to algebraic varieties
worked out by Serre and Deligne in the later 1960s; the functional equation itself has not been proved in general. The Hasse–Weil conjecture states that
Hasse–Weil_zeta_function
Matrix group
{\displaystyle \Gamma } has the congruence subgroup property. A conjecture generally attributed to Serre states that an irreducible arithmetic lattice in a semisimple
Congruence_subgroup
fields of characteristic p. The soluble case was solved by Serre in 1990 and the full conjecture was proved in 1994 by work of Michel Raynaud and David Harbater
Abhyankar's_conjecture
Topics referred to by the same term
Suslin's theorem may refer to: The Quillen–Suslin theorem (formerly the Serre conjecture), due to Andrei Suslin. Any of several theorems about analytic sets
Suslin's_theorem
Russian mathematician (born 1959)
algebraic K-theory of homogeneous varieties, Gersten's conjecture, the Grothendieck-Serre conjecture on principal G-bundles, and purity in algebraic geometry
Ivan_Panin_(mathematician)
Swiss mathematician
forms and on Galois cohomology. Along with Raman Parimala, she proved Serre's conjecture II regarding the Galois cohomology of a simply-connected semisimple
Eva_Bayer-Fluckiger
and algebraic geometry. Much of the theory is in the form of proposed conjectures, which can be related at various levels of generality. Diophantine geometry
Glossary of arithmetic and diophantine geometry
Glossary_of_arithmetic_and_diophantine_geometry
Subgroup of the group of invertible n×n matrices
cohomological invariant, essential dimension, Kneser–Tits conjecture, Serre's conjecture II Pseudo-reductive group Differential Galois theory Distribution
Linear_algebraic_group
and Daniel Quillen independently prove the Quillen–Suslin theorem ("Serre's conjecture") about the triviality of algebraic vector bundles on affine space
1976_in_science
(1993), Algebra (Third ed.), Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, ISBN 978-0-201-55540-0, Zbl 0848.13001 Lam, T. Y. (1978). Serre's Conjecture. p. 23. v t e
Stably_free_module
Mathematics concept
algebra of the Galois image. This conjecture is known only in particular cases. Through generalisations of this conjecture, the Mumford–Tate group has been
Mumford–Tate_group
Mathematical conjecture
In mathematics, the Quillen–Lichtenbaum conjecture is a conjecture relating étale cohomology to algebraic K-theory introduced by Quillen (1975, p. 175)
Quillen–Lichtenbaum conjecture
Quillen–Lichtenbaum_conjecture
conjecture is a conjecture, named after Fedor Bogomolov , in arithmetic geometry about algebraic curves that generalizes the Manin–Mumford conjecture
Bogomolov_conjecture
Mathematical conjectures in class field theory
In mathematics, the local Langlands conjectures, introduced by Robert Langlands (1967, 1970), are part of the Langlands program. They describe a correspondence
Local_Langlands_conjectures
1007/978-3-540-34575-6. ISBN 978-3-540-23317-6. Lam, T. Y. (1978). Serre’s Conjecture. Lecture Notes in Mathematics. Vol. 635. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer
Hermite_ring
m}} is very ample by the standard Serre's vanishing theorem (and its complex analytic variant). The Fujita conjecture provides an explicit bound on m {\displaystyle
Fujita_conjecture
Annual award given by the Infosys Science Foundation
fundamental contributions to Number Theory, particularly his solution of the Serre conjecture." 2011 Kannan Soundararajan Stanford University Awarded "for his path
Infosys_Prize
36 mathematical problems stated in 1955
twelfth and thirteenth problems were the precursor to the Taniyama–Shimura conjecture, also known as the modularity theorem, which would be used in Andrew Wiles'
Taniyama's_problems
fact Colliot-Thélène conjectures WWA holds for any unirational variety, which is therefore a stronger statement. This conjecture would imply a positive
Thin_set_(Serre)
French mathematician (born 1962)
-adic analog of Dirichlet's analytic class number formula. A conjecture: the Colmez conjecture relating Artin L-functions at s = 0 {\displaystyle s=0} and
Pierre_Colmez
Bayer-Fluckiger (born 1951), Hungarian-Swiss mathematician, proved Serre's conjecture on Galois cohomology of classical groups Jillian Beardwood (1934–2019)
List_of_women_in_mathematics
Mathematics of varieties with integer coordinates
modern examples include the André–Oort conjecture, the Bogomolov conjecture and also the uniform Mordell conjecture. Serge Lang published a book Diophantine
Diophantine_geometry
Prime number with a certain relationship to an elliptic curve
Lang–Trotter conjecture Sato–Tate conjecture Silverman 1986, pp. 137–144. Deuring 1941. Serre 1998, p. I-25. Elkies 1991, p. 127. Serre 1981, p. 357.
Supersingular prime (algebraic number theory)
Supersingular_prime_(algebraic_number_theory)
American mathematician (1925–2019)
Tate (the Honda–Tate theorem). The Tate conjectures are the equivalent for étale cohomology of the Hodge conjecture. They relate to the Galois action on
John_Tate_(mathematician)
Mathematical conjecture
In rational homotopy theory, the Halperin conjecture concerns the Serre spectral sequence of certain fibrations. It is named after the Canadian mathematician
Halperin_conjecture
Part of the mathematical subject of group theory
Bass–Serre theory is a part of the mathematical subject of group theory that deals with analyzing the algebraic structure of groups acting by automorphisms
Bass–Serre_theory
Branch of algebraic geometry
(together with Jean-Pierre Serre), and later scheme theory, in the 1950s and 1960s. Bernard Dwork proved one of the four Weil conjectures (rationality of the
Arithmetic_geometry
Group in arithmetic geometry
examples confirm a conjecture of Stein. Thus modulo squares any integer can be the order of Ш. Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture Manin obstruction Lang
Tate–Shafarevich_group
British mathematician who proved Fermat's Last Theorem
his attention at the age of 33 by Ken Ribet's 1986 proof of the epsilon conjecture, which Gerhard Frey had previously linked to Fermat's equation. In 1974
Andrew_Wiles
Function studied by Ramanujan
p} , which is called the Ramanujan conjecture. Assuming the first properties, Ramanujan noted that his conjecture is equivalent to the inequality | τ
Ramanujan_tau_function
Jean-Pierre Serre gave a recipe in (Serre 1970) for the so-called Gamma factors in terms of the Hodge realization of the motive. It is conjectured that, like
Motivic_L-function
French mathematician (1928–2014)
Scheme (mathematics) Section conjecture Semistable abelian variety Sheaf cohomology Stack (mathematics) Standard conjectures on algebraic cycles Sketch
Alexander_Grothendieck
Mathematical conjecture
certain Calabi–Yau manifolds and a constructed "mirror manifold". The conjecture allows one to relate the number of rational curves on a Calabi-Yau manifold
Mirror_symmetry_conjecture
Elliptic curve associated with a Fermat triple
Taniyama–Shimura conjecture would imply Fermat's Last Theorem. Serre did not provide a complete proof and what was missing became known as the epsilon conjecture or
Frey_curve
Lorenz (2008) p. 119 Serre (1997) p. 88 Fried & Jarden (2008) p. 459 Terjanian, Guy (1966). "Un contre-example à une conjecture d'Artin". Comptes Rendus
Quasi-algebraically closed field
Quasi-algebraically_closed_field
Type of Dirichlet series associated to number field extensions
two-dimensional representations follows from the proof of Serre's modularity conjecture, regardless of image subgroup. For the cyclic or dihedral case
Artin_L-function
worked on the anticyclotomic main conjecture of Iwasawa theory, special values of L-functions, and Serre-type conjectures for symplectic groups. Harris,
Jacques_Tilouine
French mathematician (1906-1998)
Weil conjecture, around 1967, which later under pressure from Serge Lang (resp. of Jean-Pierre Serre) became known as the Taniyama–Shimura conjecture (resp
André_Weil
Field of algebraic geometry
H^{0}({\mathcal {O}}_{C}(n))} are of maximal rank, also known as the maximal rank conjecture. Eric Larson and Isabel Vogt (2022) proved that if ρ ≥ 0 then there is
Brill–Noether_theory
in which every arc is isometric to some real interval. Rips proved the conjecture of Morgan and Shalen that any finitely generated group acting freely on
Rips_machine
Grothendieck inequality or Grothendieck constant Grothendieck–Katz p-curvature conjecture Grothendieck local duality Grothendieck's monodromy theorem Grothendieck's
List of things named after Alexander Grothendieck
List_of_things_named_after_Alexander_Grothendieck
Study of complex manifolds and several complex variables
Voisin, C., 2016. The Hodge conjecture. In Open problems in mathematics (pp. 521-543). Springer, Cham. Zheng 2001, p. 90 Serre, Jean-Pierre (1956). "Géométrie
Complex_geometry
Abelian group related to division algebras
the Brauer group for surfaces in that case is equivalent to the Tate conjecture for divisors on X, one of the main problems in the theory of algebraic
Brauer_group
French mathematician
David Harbater and following the work of Jean-Pierre Serre, Raynaud proved Abhyankar's conjecture in 1994. The Raynaud surface was named after him by William
Michel_Raynaud
Mathematics award
was found in 1993. In 2006, Grigori Perelman, who proved the Poincaré conjecture, refused his Fields Medal, stated "I'm not interested in money or fame;
Fields_Medal
Existence of a line through two points
dual. Unaware of Melchior's proof, Paul Erdős (1943) again stated the conjecture, which was subsequently proved by Tibor Gallai, and soon afterwards by
Sylvester–Gallai_theorem
British mathematician
method he was able to prove a conjecture of Serre in the four variable case in 2002. This particular conjecture of Serre, on the number of rational points
Roger_Heath-Brown
Mathematical manifold theory
dimensions; this duality is now known as the Hodge star operator. He further conjectured that each cohomology class should have a distinguished representative
Hodge_theory
Type of zeta function
inside the critical strip is conjectured to be expressible by important arithmetic invariants of X. An argument due to Serre based on the above elementary
Arithmetic_zeta_function
Structure in algebraic geometry
for open problems such as the Hodge conjecture and Tate conjecture. The theory of motives was originally conjectured as an attempt to unify a rapidly multiplying
Motive_(algebraic_geometry)
German mathematician
Bloch–Kato conjecture) and for the Rost invariant (a cohomological invariant with values in Galois cohomology of degree 3). Together with J.-P. Serre he is
Markus_Rost
Mathematical theory
vectors of k. See Serre 1967 Faltings 1988 Grothendieck 1971, p. 435 Fontaine 1982 Fontaine 1982, Conjecture A.6 Fontaine 1982, Conjecture A.11 Faltings 1989
P-adic_Hodge_theory
Theory in physics
sheaves, however, these are integer valued invariants. There are deep conjectures due to Davesh Maulik, Andrei Okounkov, Nikita Nekrasov and Rahul Pandharipande
Donaldson–Thomas_theory
American mathematician
primarily concerned combinatorial geometry. In 1986 he settled a conjecture of Jean-Pierre Serre by proving that n points in complex 3-space, not all lying
Leroy_Milton_Kelly
Mathematical arithmetic dynamics function
m^{-1}=f} . Jones' conjecture is considered to be a dynamical analogue of Serre's open image theorem. One direction of Jones' conjecture is known to be true:
Arboreal Galois representation
Arboreal_Galois_representation
Hilbert–Schmidt integral operator Hilbert–Schmidt theorem Hilbert–Serre theorem Hilbert–Smith conjecture Hilbert–Speiser theorem Hilbert–Waring theorem Hilbert's
List of things named after David Hilbert
List_of_things_named_after_David_Hilbert
Municipality in Greece
Emmanouil Pappas (Greek: Εμμανουήλ Παππάς) is a municipality in the Serres regional unit, Greece. The seat of the municipality is in Chryso. The municipality
Emmanouil Pappas (municipality)
Emmanouil_Pappas_(municipality)
Humorous mathematical law
One example Guy gives is the conjecture that 2p − 1 is prime—in fact, a Mersenne prime—when p is prime; but this conjecture, while true for p = 2, 3, 5
Strong_law_of_small_numbers
American mathematician (born 1937)
topology. In an elementary fashion, he proved the generalized Schoenflies conjecture (his complete proof required an additional result by Marston Morse), around
Barry_Mazur
Complex-differentiable part of a Maass wave function
S2CID 7688222 Bringmann, Kathrin; Ono, Ken (2006), "The f(q) mock theta function conjecture and partition ranks" (PDF), Inventiones Mathematicae, 165 (2): 243–266
Mock_modular_form
Mathematical concept
the Mordell conjecture is a dramatic example. The analogy was also influential in the development of Iwasawa theory and the Main Conjecture. The proof
Global_field
Sheaf cohomology on the étale site
suggestions by Jean-Pierre Serre, and was motivated by the attempt to construct a Weil cohomology theory in order to prove the Weil conjectures. The foundations
Étale_cohomology
Certain polynomial equations in enough variables over a finite field have solutions
by Chevalley (1935). Chevalley's theorem implied Artin's and Dickson's conjecture that finite fields are quasi-algebraically closed fields (Artin 1982,
Chevalley–Warning_theorem
British-Lebanese mathematician (1929–2019)
related paper they showed that the Hodge conjecture for integral cohomology is false. The Hodge conjecture for rational cohomology is, as of 2008, a
Michael_Atiyah
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Surname or Lastname
Catalan
Catalan : occupational name for a blacksmith or a worker in iron, from Latin ferrarius. This is the commonest Catalan surname.English : variant of Farrar.
Male
English
English unisex name derived from the name of a perennial herb, "sorrel," from Old French surele, from Frankish *sur, SORREL means "sour."
Surname or Lastname
Americanized form of German Herrle.English and Irish
Americanized form of German Herrle.English and Irish : variant of Harrell.
Female
English
English variant spelling of Latin Serena, SERRENA means "serene, tranquil."
Male
English
Variant spelling of English Jared, JERRED means "descent."
Surname or Lastname
English
English : possibly a variant of Mares.
Girl/Female
Hindu
Series
Surname or Lastname
English (Surrey)
English (Surrey) : unexplained. Compare Moad.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Searles.
Surname or Lastname
English (Surrey)
English (Surrey) : possibly a variant of Odell.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Merrin.
Surname or Lastname
English (Surrey)
English (Surrey) : unexplained. Compare Copas, Copus.
Male
Russian
Variant spelling of Russian Sergei, possibly SERGEJ means "sergeant."Â
Male
Russian
(Сергей) Russian form of Greek Sergios, possibly SERGEI means "sergeant."Â
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Mears.
Male
English
Variant spelling of English Daren, DERREN means "from Araines."
Girl/Female
Tamil
Shrinkhla | à®·à¯à®°à¯€à®¨à¯à®•à®²à®¾
Series
Shrinkhla | à®·à¯à®°à¯€à®¨à¯à®•à®²à®¾
Surname or Lastname
Irish and Scottish
Irish and Scottish : reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Fearghuis or Ó Fearghasa ‘descendant of Fearghus’, or from the Scottish-Gaelic form of this personal name, Fearghus (see Fergus).English : variant of Farrar.
Male
Russian
Variant spelling of Russian Sergei, possibly SERGEY means "sergeant."
Male
French
Older form of French Pierre, PIERRES means "rock, stone."
SERRES CONJECTURE
SERRES CONJECTURE
Boy/Male
American, Anglo, Australian, British, English
Of the Forest; Park Keeper
Boy/Male
Arabic
Human
Boy/Male
Tamil
Name of a God, Dependability
Boy/Male
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu
Victory; Winner; Victory of Good
Boy/Male
British, English, Hebrew
Heel; He who Supplants
Boy/Male
Indian
Female
Cornish
, under the cliff.
Girl/Female
Indian
The most beautiful Hur with
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Great Man
Boy/Male
Muslim/Islamic
Pertaining to Makkah
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a.
Of or pertaining to serum; as, the serous glands, membranes, layers. See Serum.
a.
Faithful to a secret; not inclined to divulge or betray confidence; secretive.
n.
One who serves.
a.
Serous.
a. & adv.
Alt. of Ferrer
a.
Hidden; concealed; as, secret treasure; secret plans; a secret vow.
a.
Secret; secretive; faithful to a secret.
n.
A small European evergreen oak (Quercus coccifera) on which the kermes insect (Coccus ilicis) feeds.
a.
Thin; watery; like serum; as the serous fluids.
n.
A secret.
v. t.
To keep secret.
a.
Of a yellowish or redish brown color; as, a sorrel horse.
n.
Any comprehensive group of animals or plants including several subordinate related groups.
n.
An indefinite number of terms succeeding one another, each of which is derived from one or more of the preceding by a fixed law, called the law of the series; as, an arithmetical series; a geometrical series.
n.
A species of oak (Quercus cerris) native in the Orient and southern Europe; -- called also bitter oak and Turkey oak.
n.
An animal of the Weasel family (Mustela / Putorius furo), about fourteen inches in length, of a pale yellow or white color, with red eyes. It is a native of Africa, but has been domesticated in Europe. Ferrets are used to drive rabbits and rats out of their holes.
n.
A number of things or events standing or succeeding in order, and connected by a like relation; sequence; order; course; a succession of things; as, a continuous series of calamitous events.
n.
Originally, a boundary stone dedicated to Hermes as the god of boundaries, and therefore bearing in some cases a head, or head and shoulders, placed upon a quadrangular pillar whose height is that of the body belonging to the head, sometimes having feet or other parts of the body sculptured upon it. These figures, though often representing Hermes, were used for other divinities, and even, in later times, for portraits of human beings. Called also herma. See Terminal statue, under Terminal.
n.
To drive or hunt out of a lurking place, as a ferret does the cony; to search out by patient and sagacious efforts; -- often used with out; as, to ferret out a secret.