quotient maps

A form of quotient map — A surjective, continuous function from one topological space to another one, such that the latter one's topology has the property that if the inverse image (under the said function) of some subset of it is open in the function's domain, then the subset is open in the target space.

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noun
  1. pluralplural of quotient map
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