Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

stone-čech compactification

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.11 in modern English

Syllables: stone-cech -com-pact-i-fi-ca-tion
IPA

42

Scrabble Score

25

Letters

8

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A technique for constructing a universal map from a topological space to a compact Hausdorff space.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

The space obtained by using this technique.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

Named after Marshall Stone and Eduard Čech, who wrote on the topic in 1937.

Usage

Inflected Forms

Stone-Čech compactifications (plural) Čech-Stone compactification (alternative)

Questions

What does stone-čech compactification mean?: A technique for constructing a universal map from a topological space to a compact Hausdorff space.
Where does stone-čech compactification come from?: Named after Marshall Stone and Eduard Čech, who wrote on the topic in 1937.

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