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compactifications

compactifications is the plural of compactification.

Meaning of compactification

Noun

compactification (countable and uncountable, plural compactifications)

  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.

Phrases with compactifications

Questions about compactifications

What is compactifications the plural of?
Compactifications is the plural of compactification.

Words near compactifications in the dictionary

  1. compactibilities
  2. compactibility
  3. compactible
  4. compactifiable
  5. compactification
  6. compactifications
  7. compactified
  8. compactifies
  9. compactify
  10. compactifying
  11. compactin

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