Lindelöf space

Lindelöf space
/lin"deuh lof', -lawf', -luef'/, Math.
a topological space having the property that every cover consisting of open sets has a subcover consisting of a countable number of subsets.
[after Ernst Lindelöf (1870-1946), Finnish topologist]

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