English Explanatory Dictionary

compactification

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  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.

Word forms

compactification compactifications

Etymology

From compact + -ification.

Derived words

beta-compactification decompactification Freund-Rubin compactification Stone-Čech compactification Wallman compactification
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