A name for set of disjoint intervals > What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. > > _William Shakespeare_ I'm looking for a short name for the phenomenon _collection of disjoint intervals_. I currently use _selection_ , which I'm not very satisfied with, and I wonder if there is a better (more conventional) name out there.

Options:

* More formal: Pairwise disjoint set of intervals
* Less formal: set of disjoint intervals
* Less formal: disjoint set of intervals
* Write it as something like "Let $a,b,c$ be disjoint intervals."



Basically, there is no special terminology for what you want. To avoid confusion, just don't use one. If you're using the concept a lot in a paper, you're free to make up a word, or to name the set of all such sets.