- Look up
proper or
propriety in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Proper may
refer to:
Proper map, in topology, a
property of
continuous function between...
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intuitive criterion for
properness which goes back to Chevalley. It is
commonly called the
valuative criterion of
properness. Let f: X → Y be a morphism...
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proper names are
proper nouns:
Peter and
Africa are both
proper names and
proper nouns; but
Peter the
Great and
South Africa,
while they are
proper names...
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Proper length or rest
length is the
length of an
object in the object's rest frame. The
measurement of
lengths is more
complicated in the
theory of relativity...
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spaces is
called proper if
inverse images of
compact subsets are compact. In
algebraic geometry, the
analogous concept is
called a
proper morphism. There...
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contiguous land
empire in history. His
grandson Kublai Khan
conquered China proper and
established the Yuan dynasty.
After the
collapse of the Yuan, the Mongols...
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China proper, also
called Inner China, are
terms used
primarily in the West in
reference to the
traditional "core"
regions of
China centered in the southeast...
- Ocean.
Metropolitan Denmark, also
called "continental Denmark" or "Denmark
proper",
consists of the
northern Jutland peninsula and an
archipelago of 406 islands...
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proper time (from Latin,
meaning own time)
along a
timelike world line is
defined as the time as
measured by a
clock following that line. The
proper time...
- A
proper frame, or
comoving frame, is a
frame of
reference that is
attached to an object. The
object in this
frame is
stationary within the frame, which...
