skeletoid

English

Noun

skeletoid (plural skeletoids)

1. (topology) This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
   • 1988, J. van Mill, Infinite-Dimensional Topology: Prerequisites and Introduction, page 285:

     By proposition 6.5.4, X is a skeletoid and hence an absorber by theorem 6.5.1.

   • 2020, Howard Cook, Continua: With the Houston Problem Book, page 70:

     Skeletoids and absorbers play an important role in infinite-dimensional topology. The existence and uniqueness of skeletoids (and absorbers) with respect to certain collections allow ^[sic] one to study completely metrizable infinite-dimensional manifolds by using the technique of compact manifolds, incomplete manifolds by those of complete ones and so on.

Adjective

skeletoid (not comparable)

1. (soil science) This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

   Synonym: skeletoidal

   • 1965, Soils of the Velika Morava and Mlava Basin, page 231:

     The reddish brown skeletoid soil samples were all moderately supplied.

   • 1968, Pedologic Cover of Western and Northwestern Serbia, page 247:

     Hence there are shallow skeletal and skeletoid soils on large areas, while somewhat deeper soils are found only on gentle slopes […]

2. This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
   • 1980, Paul Holliday, Fungus Diseases of Tropical Crops, →ISBN, page 266:

     Aerial hyphae: (a) as in advancing zone but with slightly thickened walls; (b) hyaline to pale brownish, thick walled, aseptate, (1-) 1.5-2 (-3) μ wide, skeletoid, rarely branched.