cofibration

English

Etymology

From co- +‎ fibration.

Noun

cofibration (plural cofibrations)

1. (mathematics) A particular form of mapping. A continuous mapping $i\colon A\to X$, where A and X are topological spaces, is a cofibration if it satisfies the homotopy extension property with respect to all spaces Y.

Related terms

• fibration

Anagrams

• biofraction