Isolated point

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In mathematics, in a topological space X, an isolated point is a point x such that the singleton {x} is open. Equivalently, x is an isolated point if x is not a limit point of X. If A is a subset of X, we say that x is an isolated point of A if x is an isolated point of the subspace A.