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cocompact

cocompact adjective: having a compact quotient space.

Adjective

cocompact (not comparable)

  1. (or its group) Having a compact quotient space.
    • 9:45AM (208) Infinite towers of cocompact lattices in Kac-Moody groups. Preliminary report. Lisa Carbone and Leigh Cobbs*, Rutgers University2009 January, Bernard Russo, James J. Tattersall, “Program of the Sessions: Washington, District of Columbia, January 5-8, 2009”, in Notices of the American Mathematical Society...

Origin of cocompact

From co- + compact.

Words formed from cocompact

Questions about cocompact

What does cocompact mean?
Cocompact means having a compact quotient space.
What part of speech is cocompact?
Cocompact is an adjective.

Words near cocompact in the dictionary

  1. cocomats
  2. cocommentator
  3. cocommentators
  4. cocommutative
  5. cocommutativity
  6. cocompact
  7. cocompactly
  8. cocompactness
  9. cocomplete
  10. cocompleteness
  11. cocompletion

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