metacompact

adj

Etymology

From meta- + compact.

  1. derived from *peh₂ǵ-
  2. derived from compāctus
  3. derived from compact
  4. prefixed as metacompact — “meta + compact

Definitions

  1. Of a topological space

    Of a topological space: such that every open cover has a point finite open refinement. That is, given any open cover of the topological space, there is a refinement which is again an open cover with the property that every point is contained only in finitely many sets of the refining cover.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for metacompact. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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