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From French borné (bounded) + -ology, in analogy to topology.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
bornology
Today it means: A structure which generalizes the set of all bounded subsets of a topological vector space Full definition →
Today it means: A structure which generalizes the set of all bounded subsets of a topological vector space Full definition →
From French borné (bounded) + -ology, in analogy to topology.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.