The term compact was introduced into mathematics by Maurice Fréchet in 1906 as a distillation of this concept.

Some branches of mathematics such as algebraic geometry, typically influenced by the French school of Bourbaki, use the term quasi-compact for the general notion, and reserve the term compact for topological spaces that are both Hausdorff and quasi-compact.

They chose the term " compact disc " in line with another Philips product, the compact cassette.

While the dividing line between machine pistols and compact submachine guns is hard to draw, the term " submachine gun " usually refers to larger automatic firearms scaled down from a full-sized machine gun to fire handgun rounds, while the term " machine pistol " usually refers to a weapon built up from a semi-automatic pistol design.

The convention adopted a translation into Spanish of the term, inspired by the Irish saorstát ( Free State ) of " Estado Libre Asociado " ( ELA ) to represent the agreement adopted " in the nature of a compact " between the people of Puerto Rico and the U. S. literally translated into English, the phrase means " Associated Free State.

As the term tabloid has now become linked to stories about crime and scandal, some small-format papers which claim a higher standard of journalism refer to themselves as compact newspapers instead.

Red top tabloids are so named due to their tendency, in British and Commonwealth usage, to have their mastheads printed in red ink ; the term compact was coined to avoid the connotation of the word tabloid, which implies a red top tabloid, and has lent its name to tabloid journalism, which is journalism after the fashion of red top reporters.

The term compact was coined in the 1970s by the Daily Mail, one of the earlier newspapers to make the change, although it now once again calls itself a tabloid.

Similarly, when referring to the down-market tabloid newspapers the alternative term " red-top " ( referring to their traditionally red-coloured mastheads ) is increasingly used, to distinguish them from the up-and middle-market compact newspapers.

He denied the term " farce " was derogatory, or even lacking in seriousness, and said " It is of nonsense all compact, and better nonsense, I think, our stage has not seen.

For example, the partition 2 + 1 + 1 might instead be written as the tuple or in the even more compact form where the superscript indicates the number of repetitions of a term.

The report by GHM ( 1995 ) subsumes the Epirote Albanophones under the term Arvanites, although it notes the different linguistic self-designation, on the other hand, applies the term Arvanites only to the populations of the compact Arvanitic settlement areas in southern Greece, in keeping with the self-identification of those groups.

In astronomy, the term compact star ( sometimes compact object ) is used to refer collectively to white dwarfs, neutron stars, other exotic dense stars, and black holes.

The H term is usually just 1 as U is usually not compact, and the H can be calculated explicitly as follows.

In the context of mountain biking the term compact crankset, or micro drive, refers to smaller triple cranksets, giving a small benefit in weight at the expense of increased wear and also giving the bike better clearance over obstacles.

Now that advances in compact disc player technology have made the CD acceptable for mixing and " turntablism ", the term maxi single is increasingly used.

The " compact " term was coined by George W. Romney as a euphemism for small cars with a wheelbase of or less.

Although the term " bootable business card " could be applied to any bootable CD-ROM in the business card form factor, it almost always refers one which contains a compact Linux distribution generally containing a suite of system diagnostic and rescue tools and / or demos of specific packages.

Although variable-voltage devices are used for various purposes, the term dimmer is generally reserved for those intended to control light output from resistive incandescent, halogen, and ( more recently ) compact fluorescent lights ( CFLs ) and light-emitting diodes ( LEDs ).

The Latin name ' Asteraceae ' is derived from the type genus Aster, which is a Greek term, meaning " star ".

In 1935, American radio commentator Walter Winchell coined the term " disc jockey " ( the combination of disc, referring to the disc records, and jockey, which is an operator of a machine ) as a description of radio announcer Martin Block, the first announcer to become a star.

There also exist planetary-mass objects that orbit brown dwarfs and other bodies that " float free " in space not bound to any star ; however, the term " planet " is not always applied to these objects.

As early as the 7th century the word 天皇 ( which can be read either as sumera no mikoto, divine order, or as tennō, Heavenly Emperor, the latter being derived from a Tang Chinese term referring to the Pole star around which all other stars revolve ) began to be used.

The term appears in the context of an oracle against a dead king of Babylon, who is addressed as הילל בן שחר ( hêlêl ben šāḥar ), rendered by the King James Version as " Lucifer, son of the dawn " and by others as " morning star, son of the dawn ".

Here, the term " parallax " is the angle or semi-angle of inclination between two sight-lines to the star.

The term " Al Nesr al Waki " appeared in the Al Achsasi Al Mouakket star catalogue and was translated into Latin as " Vulture Cadens ".

The term double star may be used synonymously with binary star, but more generally, a double star may be either a binary star or an optical double star which consists of two stars with no physical connection but which appear close together in the sky as seen from the Earth.

By the modern definition, the term binary star is generally restricted to pairs of stars which revolve around a common centre of mass.

The more general term double star is used for pairs of stars which are seen to be close together in the sky.

Thus " double star " remains a useful term for pairs whose status is not fully known.

A few astronomers sometimes use the term " Death Star " to describe Nemesis, a hypothetical star postulated in 1984 to be responsible for gravitationally forcing comets and asteroids from the Oort cloud toward Earth.

Girasol opal is a term sometimes mistakenly and improperly used to refer to fire opals as well as a type of transparent to semi-transparent type milky quartz from Madagascar which displays an asterism, or star effect, when cut properly.

Unfortunately, everyone's stability was halted when bureaucratic social worker Simon P. Chillings ( guest star Timothy Stack ) showed up, found out about Henry's condition and ultimately deemed the worst: not only did he find Betty unsuitable to care for Punky in the meantime ( because she was a single woman with long working hours, already raising her granddaughter ), but he felt that Henry was unfit to be her legal guardian in the long term, due to his health, age, and uncertain financial future.

For the creation of elements during the explosion of a star, the term supernova nucleosynthesis is used.

Leonid storms gave birth to the term meteor shower when it was first realised, during the November 1833 storm, that the meteors radiated from near the star Gamma Leonis.

The term cepheid originates from Delta Cephei in the constellation Cepheus, the first star of this type identified, by John Goodricke in 1784.

Assuming that the radius of the star does not change over this interval, the long term variation in activity level appears to produce a temperature variation of 15 K, which corresponds to a variation in visual magnitude ( V ) of 0. 014.

In Italy ( and gradually elsewhere ) she soon became established as a star, although she lacked the conventional beauty and glamour often associated with the term.

( Aiúa is the term given to the pattern defining any specific structure of the universe, whether a particular atom, a star, or a sentient consciousness.

The term stellar atmosphere describes the outer region of a star, and typically includes the portion starting from the opaque photosphere outwards.

It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.

So in these pages the term `` technology '' is used to include any and all means which could amplify, project, or augment man's control over himself and over other men.

It is of the utmost importance to the people of America and of the world how their governing President `` ends up '' during the four years of his term.

Only when that term is ended and he is a private citizen again can he be permitted the freedom and the courage to discount the dangers of his death.

`` I may possibly be a greater risk than is the normal person of my age '', the President had said on February 29th of the election year, ignoring the fact that no one of his age had ever lived out another term.

Let us not confuse the issue by labeling the objective or the method `` psychoanalytic '', for this is a well established term of art for the specific ideas and procedures initiated by Sigmund Freud and his followers for the study and treatment of disordered personalities.

Mr. Wagner might or might not be a `` new '' Mayor in this third term, now that he is free of the pressure of those party leaders whom he calls `` bosses ''.

This is done at varying speeds, ranging from the slow and fast Shifte Telli ( a musical term meaning double strings ) to the fastest, ecstatic Karshilama ( meaning greetings or welcome ).

the term of loans for working capital is 6 years.

Interim financing of construction costs is provided by a short term loan from The Chase Manhattan Bank.

For the near term, however, it must be realized that the industrial and commercial market is somewhat more sensitive to general business conditions than is the military market, and for this reason I would expect that any gain in 1961 may be somewhat smaller than those of recent years ; ;

If you would feel happier with full collision insurance, there is a small additional charge, again varying from country to country and depending on the term of such insurance.

The collective by which I address you in the title above is neither patronizing nor jocose but an exact industrial term in use among professional thieves.

for, using the fact that N and N' commute Af and so when R is sufficiently large every term in this expression for Af will be 0.

The only other one I shall mention here is his use of the term capitalism.

This is not, however, the case, and development is a term which we can apply to Hardy only in a very limited sense.

`` Disaffiliation '', by the way, is the term used by the critic and poet, Lawrence Lipton, who has written several articles on this subject, the first of which, in The Nation, quoted as Epigraph: `` We disaffiliate.

This term refers to the ability of a material to resist bending stress and is determined by measuring the load required to cause failure by bending.

Incumbent Richard Salter seeks re-election and is opposed by Donald Huffman for the five-year term.

The term " anthropology " is from the Greek anthrōpos (), " man ", understood to mean humankind or humanity, and-logia (- λογία ), " discourse " or " study.

In some European countries, all cultural anthropology is known as ethnology ( a term coined and defined by Adam F. Kollár in 1783 ).

As amoebas themselves are polyphyletic and subject to some imprecision in definition, the term " amoeboid " does not provide identification of an organism, and is better understood as description of locomotion.