metacompact

English

Etymology

From meta- +‎ compact.

Adjective

metacompact (not comparable)

1. (topology) Of a topological space: such that every open cover has a point finite open refinement. That is, given any open cover of the topological space, there is a refinement which is again an open cover with the property that every point is contained only in finitely many sets of the refining cover.

Derived terms

• metacompactness