compactification
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(topology) Any of various procedures of enlarging a topological space to make it compact.
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(topology) The space resulting from any such procedure.
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(physics) Any modification of a theory such that an infinite parameter becomes finite.
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(physics) The reduction of the number of large spacetime dimensions of a physical theory by making some of them compact.
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