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Dec 1, 2009
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Hei'ne-Bo•rel' the"orem



Pronunciation: (hī'nu-bô-rel', -bu-), [key] Math.
the theorem that in a metric space every covering consisting of open sets that covers a closed and compact set has a finite collection of subsets that covers the given set. Also called Borel-Lebesque theorem.

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