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smashproduct (pluralsmash products)

1. (mathematics) For two pointed spaces (i.e.topological spaces with distinguishedbasepoints)X andY, thequotient of the product spaceX ×Y under theidentifications (x,y₀) ∼ (x₀,y) for allx ∈X andy ∈Y; usually denotedX∧Y.

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