Covering - Definition and Overview

Related Words: Blanket, Blanketing, Border, Burial, Burying, Circumference, Cloak, Cloaking, Coat, Cortex, Counting, Cover, Coverage, Covert

Mathematical meanings of the term covering include

A covering map in topology.
The covering lemma in set theory (specifically large cardinal theory).
The Lebesgue covering dimension, a definition of dimension using topological properties.
The ε-covering number of a compact set (some info can be found in Box-counting dimension and Sphere packing).

Non-mathematical pages that relate to covering include

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