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paracontact

paracontact noun: having the property that every open cover has an open refinement that is locally finite.

Noun

paracontact

  1. Having the property that every open cover has an open refinement that is locally finite.
    • The main purpose of this paper is to give some results in paracontact geometry obtained by the existence of a harmonic map..2015, S. K. Srivastava, K. Srivastava, “Harmonic maps on paracontact manifolds”, in arXiv

Origin of paracontact

From para- + contact.

Questions about paracontact

What does paracontact mean?
Paracontact means having the property that every open cover has an open refinement that is locally finite.
What part of speech is paracontact?
Paracontact is a noun.

Words near paracontact in the dictionary

  1. paraconsistent
  2. paraconsistent logic
  3. paraconsistent logics
  4. paraconsistentization
  5. paraconsistently
  6. paracontact
  7. paracontrast
  8. paracontrolled
  9. paracontrolled distribution
  10. paracontrolled distributions
  11. paraconule

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