compactification

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Meaning

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

Similar words

toroidal yau compactum realcompactification compact space decompactification compacton deformation retract locally compact group beta-compactification

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