Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

partition of unity

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.56 in modern English

Syllables: par-ti-tion of u-ni-ty
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

5

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A collection of non-negative-valued functions defined on a topological space, such that every point has only finitely many nonzero values, and these sum to one.

Inflected Forms

partitions of unity (plural)

Questions

What does partition of unity mean?: A collection of non-negative-valued functions defined on a topological space, such that every point has only finitely many nonzero values, and these sum to one.

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