Compactification
Definition & Meaning
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Compactification is a noun meaning (topology) Any of various procedures of enlarging a topological space to make it compact.
Meaning
(topology) Any of various procedures of enlarging a topological space to make it compact.
More Meanings
- (topology) The space resulting from any such procedure.
- (physics) Any modification of a theory such that an infinite parameter becomes finite.
- (physics) The reduction of the number of large spacetime dimensions of a physical theory by making some of them compact.
Word Forms
- compactifications
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include toroidal, compactum, realcompactification, decompactification, compacton, deformation retract.
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