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Extremally disconnected space

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A topological space is extremally disconnected when the closure of every open set is open. This concerns open sets, not arbitrary subsets. In particular, a nonisolated singleton in a Hausdorff space is closed but not open, so its closure gives a counterexample to that stronger condition.

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An **extremally disconnected space** is a topological space in which the closure of every open set is open.
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