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Meaning of compactification | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

  1. Any of various procedures of enlarging a topological space to make it compact.
  2. The space resulting from any such procedure.
  3. Any modification of a theory such that an infinite parameter becomes finite.
  4. The reduction of the number of large spacetime dimensions of a physical theory by making some of them compact.

Equivalents

Français compactification
Íslenska þjöppun

CEFR level

C2
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