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Look up proper or propriety in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Proper may refer to: Proper map, in topology, a property of continuous function between

proper names are proper nouns: Peter and Africa are both proper names and proper nouns; but Peter the Great and South Africa, while they are proper names

spaces is called proper if inverse images of compact subsets are compact. In algebraic geometry, the analogous concept is called a proper morphism. There

Proper motion is the angular speed of a celestial object, such as a star, as it moves across the sky. It is an astrometric measure, giving an object's

Sweden proper (Swedish: Egentliga Sverige, literally Actual Sweden) is a term used to distinguish those territories that were fully integrated into the

Proper length or rest length is the length of an object in the object's rest frame. The measurement of lengths is more complicated in the theory of relativity

A city proper is the geographical area contained within city limits. The term proper is not exclusive to cities; it can describe the geographical area

In relativity, proper time (from the Latin proprius, meaning own) along a timelike world line is defined as the time as measured by a clock following that

algebraic geometry, a proper morphism between schemes is an analog of a proper map between complex analytic spaces. Some authors call a proper variety over a

analysis, in particular the subfields of convex analysis and optimization, a proper convex function is an extended real-valued convex function with a non-empty