Word.ws English Dictionary

sheaf theory

sheaf theory noun: that field of modern mathematics that studies sheaves (“abstract constructs in topology”).

Noun

sheaf theory (countable and uncountable, plural sheaf theories)

  1. (uncountable) That field of modern mathematics that studies sheaves (“abstract constructs in topology”).
  2. (countable, topos theory) A cohomology theory that is also a sheaf cohomology on an appropriate site.

Forms of sheaf theory

pluralsheaf theories

Questions about sheaf theory

What does sheaf theory mean?
Sheaf theory means that field of modern mathematics that studies sheaves (“abstract constructs in topology”).
What part of speech is sheaf theory?
Sheaf theory is a noun.
What is the plural of sheaf theory?
The plural of sheaf theory is sheaf theories.

Words near sheaf theory in the dictionary

  1. sheading
  2. sheadings
  3. Sheads
  4. sheaf
  5. sheaf theories
  6. sheaf theory
  7. sheafed
  8. Sheaffer
  9. Sheaffers
  10. sheafification
  11. sheafifications

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sheaf theory (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “sheaf theory.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sheaf_theory. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.