metacompact (English, adj)
expansion: metacompact (not comparable)
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topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: Of a topological space: such that every open cover has a point finite open refinement. That is, given any open cover of the topological space, there is a refinement which is again an open cover with the property that every point is contained only in finitely many sets of the refining cover.
tags: not-comparable
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