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They Provide Relief For Map Readers

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30%10Map readers competing in a race
noun

• Someone who takes part in the sport of orienteering.

26%7 Topology: A term used to describe a continuous map between topological spaces that induces a map on all associated algebraic structures.
noun

• The transpose of the cofactor matrix of a given square matrix.

• (of a matrix) Transpose conjugate.

• (of an operator) Hermitian conjugate.

• A functor related to another functor by an adjunction.

• A curve A such that any point of a given curve C of multiplicity r has multiplicity at least r–1 on A. Sometimes the multiple points of C are required to be ordinary, and if this condition is not satisfied the term sub-adjoint is used.

• An assistant to someone who holds a position in the military or civil service.

• An assistant mayor of a French commune.

adjective

• Used in certain contexts, in each case involving a pair of transformations, one of which is, or is analogous to, conjugation (either inner automorphism or complex conjugation).

• (of a functor) That is related to another functor by an adjunction.

• (of one curve to another curve) Having a relationship of the nature of an adjoint (adjoint curve); sharing multiple points with.

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