Clopen

//ˈkləʊ̯.pən// adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A pair of work shifts in which a worker works a closing shift one day and then works an opening shift the following day.

    "James is on vacation, so I've got to do a clopen this weekend to cover his shifts."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Both open and closed. not-comparable

    "A subset of a metric space is clopen iff it is both closed and open. A metric space is called zero-dimensional iff there is a base for the open sets consisting of clopen sets."

Example

More examples

"A subset of a metric space is clopen iff it is both closed and open. A metric space is called zero-dimensional iff there is a base for the open sets consisting of clopen sets."

Etymology

Blend of closed + open.

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