 ##  [NIP](/nip) 

  ##  [NIP](https://mathlogic.quantumdictionary.io/nip-0) 

  
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**Mathematics &amp; Logic Dictionary**

 
Definition

An abbreviation for “Not the Independence Property”: a theory has NIP if no formula exhibits the independence property, meaning there is a uniform bound forbidding formulas from encoding arbitrary subsets of arbitrarily large finite sets (no unbounded 'shattering').