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Noun

1. 1
   A cover which is a subset of another cover.

   "The open intervals cover the real numbers; the open intervals of the form (x, x+1) are a subcover."

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subcovering

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"The open intervals cover the real numbers; the open intervals of the form (x, x+1) are a subcover."

Etymology

From sub- + cover.

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