Definition:Family

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Family may refer to:

Family is used by some authors as a synonym for set.

However, the general understanding of the term family is as follows:

• Indexed family: a mapping $x: I \to S$ from an indexing set $I$ to a set $S$, usually denoted $\family {x_i}_{i \mathop \in I}$
  • Indexed family of sets: when $S$ is a set of sets
  • Indexed family of subsets: when $S$ is a set of subsets of another set.

Also see

• Definition:Class (Class Theory)