Subspace
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subspace
[′səb‚spās] (mathematics)
A subset of a space which, in the appropriate context, is a space in its own right.
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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.
Subspace
in mathematics, a set Pʹ of elements of a space P that is itself a space in the same sense as P. For example, every set of elements of a metric space is a metric subspace. In a three-dimensional vector space R3, any line or plane is, respectively, a subspace R1 and R2 of R3
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