"Stone-Čech compactification" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: Stone-Čech compactifications [plural]
Etymology: Named after Marshall Stone and Eduard Čech, who wrote on the topic in 1937. Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} Stone-Čech compactification (countable and uncountable, plural Stone-Čech compactifications), {{tlb|en|topology}} (topology)
  1. A technique for constructing a universal map from a topological space to a compact Hausdorff space. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Topology
    Sense id: en-Stone-Čech_compactification-en-noun-JenCQmE1 Disambiguation of Topology: 51 49 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 68 32 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 66 34 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 70 30 Topics: mathematics, sciences, topology
  2. The space obtained by using this technique. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Topology
    Sense id: en-Stone-Čech_compactification-en-noun-Mz3bi8ce Disambiguation of Topology: 51 49 Topics: mathematics, sciences, topology
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: Čech-Stone compactification

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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