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The word graph is used in discrete mathematics for a mathematical object consisting of a set of objects together with a way in which some pairs of objects are related. So we could say it represents the most general type of symmetric binary relation.
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Wallis, W.D. (2003). Graph Theory. In: A Beginner’s Guide to Discrete Mathematics. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3826-1_7
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