Proper

Proper may refer to:

  • Proper (liturgy), the part of a Christian liturgy that is specific to the date within the Liturgical Year
  • Proper frame, such system of reference in which object is stationary (non moving), sometimes also called a co-moving frame
  • Proper (heraldry), in heraldry, means depicted in natural colors
  • Proper or appropriate conduct
  • Proper (often capitalized PROPER), a corrected release in response to a previously released online video or movie that contains transcoding or other playback errors.

In mathematics:

  • Proper map, in topology, a property of continuous function between topological spaces, if inverse images of compact subsets are compact
  • Proper morphism, in algebraic geometry, an analogue of a proper map for algebraic varieties
  • Proper transfer function, a transfer function in control theory in which the degree of the numerator does not exceed the degree of the denominator
  • Proper equilibrium, in game theory, a refinement of the Nash equilibrium.
  • Proper subset
  • Proper space

Famous quotes containing the word proper:

    “A proper secrecy is the only mystery of able men; mystery is the only secrecy of weak and cunning ones.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    “My maiden Isabel,
    Reflaring rosabel.
    The fragrant camomel;
    The ruddy rosary,
    The sovereign rosemary,
    The pretty strawberry;
    The columbine, the nept,
    The jelofer well set,
    The proper violet:”
    —John Skelton (1460?–1529)

    ““The proper stuff of fiction” does not exist; everything is the proper stuff of fiction, every feeling, every thought; every quality of brain and spirit is drawn upon; no perception comes amiss.”
    —Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)