I apologize for asking something that might well be found in a mathematical dictionary, but the similarity of the French word to an English one is frustrating my attempts to Google the answer (and the library is shut at time of typing). I suspect the answer should be obvious to those who, unlike me, know some basic Lie group/Lie algebra terminology.
Some context: I am reading an old paper of Dixmier from 1969, which has the following construction/definition. Let mathfrakg be a Lie algebra (characteristic zero, finite-dimensional), let mathfrakn be its largest nilpotent ideal -- the nilradical -- and put mathfrakh=[mathfrakg,mathfrakg]+mathfrakn. Dixmier calls mathfrakh "le nilradicalisé de mathfrakg".
Literal translation would surely be "the nilradicalised", but that sounds more like a mopey university indie band than a mathematical object. So what is the usual name for this object in English?
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