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compact set

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compact set [¦käm‚pakt ′set]
(mathematics)
A set in a topological space with the property that every open cover has a finite subset which is also a cover. Also known as bicompact set.


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With this brief introduction, she produced from her pocket an advertisement, carefully cut out of a newspaper, setting forth that in Buckingham Street in the Adelphi there was to be let furnished, with a view of the river, a singularly desirable, and compact set of chambers, forming a genteel residence for a young gentleman, a member of one of the Inns of Court, or otherwise, with immediate possession.
 
 
 
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