deformation retract
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.79 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A subspace such that there is a retraction onto it of the ambient space homotopic to the identity function on the ambient space.
verb
To have a deformation retract as a subspace.