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Scott-open

The English word “Scott-open” has 1 meaning listed here.

adjective

  1. Of a subset O of a partially ordered set P: such that it is an upper set and is inaccessible by directed joins, i.e. all directed sets D with supremum in O have non-empty intersection with O.

Etymology

Named after the mathematician Dana Scott.

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