direct product

1. The set of all possible tuples whose elements are elements of given, separately specified, sets.

   If A and B are sets, their direct product is the set of ordered pairs (a,b) with a in A and b in B.

2. Such a set of tuples formed from two or more groups, forming another group whose group operation is the component-wise application of the original group operations and of which the original groups are normal subgroups.

3. Such a set of tuples formed from two or more rings, forming another ring whose operations arise from the component-wise application of the corresponding original ring operations.

   A Boolean ring of order 2ⁿ (or dimension n) may be constructed as the direct product of n Boolean rings of dimension one.

4. A topological space analogously formed from two or more (up to an infinite number of) topological spaces.

5. Any of a number of mathematical objects analogously derived from a given ordered set of objects.

6. A high-level generalization of the preceding that applies to objects in an arbitrary category and produces a new object constructable by morphisms from each of the original objects.

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