Mathematical English Usage - a Glossary

by Jerzy Trzeciak

lack

1
[cf. absence] Note that the lack of compactness prevents us from using Theorem 1.

[Note the difference: absence = non-presence; lack = shortage of something desirable.]  

2
 The space R is pseudo-compact but lacks any such subset.


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