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Subbase

In topology, a subbase (or subbasis) for a topological space X with topology T is a subcollection of T such that every open set in T can be written as a union of finite intersections of elements of B. We say that the subbase generates the topology T, and that T is generated by B. The definition is used for two purposes in practice:

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