set description

set description

[′set di‚skrip·shən]
(computer science)
For a specified data set, a definition of the set class name, set-owner selection criteria, set-member eligibility rules, and set-member ordering rules.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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So, the sublevels of the first three levels of the set description can contain pointers to IC at the level of numbers and measurements, for example, in the case where the set cardinality is indicated, for example, <<crowd of 100 people>>, <<1000 houses>>, etc.
For example, a successor set description, defined in Section 4, is a refinement of a decomposition.

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