covering

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Synonyms: coveting, cowering, hovering, lovering, overing, cohering, wavering, sobering, towering, uncovering, conversing

Antonyms: coveting, cowering, hovering, lovering, overing, cohering, wavering, sobering, towering, uncovering, conversing

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Verb

1. present participle and gerund of cover

Noun

1. That which covers or conceals; a cover; something spread or laid over or wrapped about another.
2. Action of the verb to cover.
3. A collection of sets {Ui} such that their union contains U; such a collection with the additional property that every Ui is open; such a collection with the additional property that every Ui is contained in U.
4. A special kind of map that establishes a relationship between two topological spaces in the sense that, under the action of the map, the one looks locally like several copies of the second: Formally, a continuous map π:E→X between topological spaces such that there exists, for every point x in X, a discrete space Dx and an open neighborhood U of x such that π−1(U)=⨆d∈DxVd and π|Vd:Vd→U is a homeomorphism for every d∈Dx. See Covering space on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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