Definition:Meager Space/Linguistic Note
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Definition
The word meager (British English: meagre) is a somewhat old-fashioned word meaning deficient, lacking, scrawny etc.
It originates from the French maigre, meaning thin in the sense of unhealthily skinny.
Source
- 2014: Christopher Clapham and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (5th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): meagre set