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quasi-projective

quasi-projective adjective: locally closed with respect to the Zariski topology on projective n-space; isomorphic to such a set.

Adjective

quasi-projective (not comparable)

  1. Locally closed with respect to the Zariski topology on projective n-space; isomorphic to such a set.
  2. Comprising an open subscheme of a projective scheme

Origin of quasi-projective

From quasi- + projective, the sense being that projective varieties are closed subsets of projective space while quasi-projective varieties are only required to be locally closed, a strictly weaker condition. The second, scheme-theoretic sense generalizes the first.

Questions about quasi-projective

What does quasi-projective mean?
Quasi-projective means locally closed with respect to the Zariski topology on projective n-space; isomorphic to such a set.
What part of speech is quasi-projective?
Quasi-projective is an adjective.

Words near quasi-projective in the dictionary

  1. quasi-one-dimensionality
  2. quasi-periodic
  3. quasi-planet
  4. quasi-probabilities
  5. quasi-probability
  6. quasi-projective
  7. quasi-pseudo-metrizability
  8. quasi-pseudo-metrizable
  9. quasi-realism
  10. quasi-rent
  11. quasi-rents

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