metacompact
English
Etymology
meta- + compact
Adjective
metacompact (not comparable)
- (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