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What is a semigroup?

What is a semigroup? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (mathematics) Any set for which there is a binary operation that is closed and associative.
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In the case where the semigroup variety has a particular closure property with respect to programs, we are able to give precise characterizations of these regular languages.
The elements of the semigroup are identified with the reduced words of the rewriting system.
It is written for the mathematician who has a background in semigroup theory but knows next to nothing on automata and languages.
In this paper we are going to follow their footsteps constructing the skew semigroup ring and prove its associativity without using approximate identity.
It follows naturally that various classes of ordered sets can be characterized by semigroup properties of endomorphism semigroups.
Equivalently a regular semigroup in which idempotents commute.

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