Dedekind cut noun1 •Any partition of the set of rational numbers into non-empty sets A and B such that all elements of A are less than all elements of B and A contains no greatest element; intended as a construction of a real number.More than one formal solution was offered; the one which is easiest to work with (all of the solutions are provably equivalent) is the method of Dedekind cuts. — 1990 formsDedekind cuts
