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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
abelian /əˈbiːlɪən/

▶adjective Mathematics (of a group) having members related by a commutative operation (i.e. a*b = b*a).

– origin C19: from the name of the Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel + -ian.

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