Socle

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈsəʊkÉ™l/
• Rhymes: -əʊkÉ™l

Origin

From French socle, from Italian zoccolo ‘wooden shoe’, from Latin socculus, diminutive of soccus ‘sock’.

Full definition of socle

Noun

1. (architecture) A low plinth or pedestal used to display a statue or other art work.
2. (mathematics) The sum of the minimal submodules of a given R-module of a given ring R.
3. (mathematics, group theory) The subgroup generated by the minimal normal subgroups of a given group.

Synonyms

• (a plinth or pedestal) zocco, zocle

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