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The hypergraph chromatic number is the minimum number of colours in a proper hypergraph colouring. If $H$ has $N$ vertices and maximum hypergraph independent set size $a$, then $\chi (H)\ge N/a$, since the colour classes partition its vertex set into hypergraph independent sets.

A hypergraph is linear when two distinct hypergraph edges intersect in at most one vertex of a hypergraph. Equivalently, every pair of distinct vertices of a hypergraph has hypergraph codegree at most one. This restricts local overlap without bounding the hypergraph chromatic number: the random alteration method gives linear three-uniform hypergraphs of arbitrarily large hypergraph chromatic number.