Associations to the word «Compactification»

Wiktionary

COMPACTIFICATION, noun. (topology) Any of various procedures of enlarging a topological space to make it compact.
COMPACTIFICATION, noun. (topology) The space resulting from any such procedure.
COMPACTIFICATION, noun. (physics) Any modification of a theory such that an infinite parameter becomes finite

Wise words

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery