English edit

Etymology edit

co- +‎ compact

Adjective edit

cocompact (not comparable)

  1. (of a group action, or its group) Having a compact quotient space.
    • 2009 January, Bernard Russo, James J. Tattersall, “Program of the Sessions: Washington, District of Columbia, January 5-8, 2009”, in Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 56:1[1], page 122:
      9:45AM (208) Infinite towers of cocompact lattices in Kac-Moody groups. Preliminary report. Lisa Carbone and Leigh Cobbs*, Rutgers University