topologize

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verb

To equip with a topology, to characterize as a topological space

Scrabble 22

Meanings

verbtopologize (third-person singular simple present topologizes, present participle topologizing, simple past and past participle topologized)

present singular third person topologizes · participle present topologizing · participle past topologized · past topologized

  1. mathematicsTo equip with a topology, to characterize as a topological space

    We topologize Spec(M) with Zariski topology, which is analogous to that for Spec(R), and consider Max(M) as the induced subspace topology.

    2015, Habibollah Ansari-Toroghy, Shokoufeh Habibi, “The Zariski topology-graph on the maximal spectrum of modules over commutative rings”, in arXiv
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