homotope

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homotope (third-person singular simple present homotopes, present participle homotoping, simple past and past participle homotoped)

  1. (topology, transitive) To define or demonstrate a homotopy of (one map with another).
  2. (topology, transitive) More loosely, to exhibit a homotopy equivalence between two spaces.

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