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locally compact space  

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  • In topology and related branches of mathematics, a topological space is called locally compact if, roughly speaking, each small portion of the space looks like a small portion of a compact space. More precisely, it is a topological space in which every point has a compact neighborhood.
    (Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locally_compact_space)

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