hypercontinuum

English

Etymology

From hyper- +‎ continuum.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈhaɪ.pɚ.kənˌtɪn.ju.əm/

Noun

hypercontinuum (plural hypercontinua)

1. (set theory) The set of all subsets of a set of with the (infinite) cardinality of the continuum.
   • 2015, Alfonso Artigue, “Pseudo-Anosov maps and continuum theory”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     We show that negative iterates of a stable arc converges to this hypercontinuum in the considered metric.