clopen
Speech parts
1. clopen - Noun
2. clopen - Adjective
Meaning
clopen (not comparable)
(topology, of a set in a topological space) Both open and closed.
clopen (plural clopens)
A pair of work shifts in which a worker works a closing shift one day and then works an opening shift the following day.
James is on vacation, so I've got to do a clopen this weekend to cover his shifts.
Anagrams
Examples
Let be the connected component of x in a topological space X, and be the intersection of all clopen sets containing x (called quasi-component of x.) Then where the equality holds if X is compact Hausdorff or locally connected.
A set may be both open and closed (a clopen set ).
A subset of X may be open, closed, both ( clopen set ), or neither.
Equivalently, a space is connected if the only clopen sets are the whole space and the empty set.
Hence, in any topology, the entire space is simultaneously open and closed (" clopen ").