Definition of "ZF"
ZF
noun
uncountable
(set theory) Initialism of Zermelo-Fraenkel (set theory): a particular axiomatic formulation of set theory without the axiom of choice.
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Gödel's model is an example of a simple type of inner model that might be called a definable transitive inner model3), where the universe is replaced by a transitive subuniverse defined within ZF, the membership relation is just the original one restricted to the subuniverse, and where the axioms of ZF relativized to the subuniverse, are provable within ZF.
1967, Carol Karp, “A Proof of the Relative Consistency of the Continuum Hypothesis”, in John N. Crossley, editor, Sets, Models, and Recursion Theory, North-Holland, page 7
However, the problem with it,[the generalized continuum hypothesis] and the reason why it is not part of ZF strictly (apart from the fact that it implies the axiom of choice) is that it is rather arbitrary.
1991 [Kluwer Academic], Fred Landman, Structures for Semantics, 1991, Springer, Softcover, page 56
adjective
not comparable
(telecommunications, signal processing) Initialism of zero forcing.
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