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Cactoid vs Factoid - What's the difference?

cactoid | factoid |

As nouns the difference between cactoid and factoid

is that cactoid is a member of the cactus subfamily cactoideae while factoid is an inaccurate statement or statistic believed to be true because of broad repetition, especially if cited in the media.

cactoid

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A member of the cactus subfamily Cactoideae.
  • (topology)
  • * 1951 , John William Theodore Youngs, The Representation Problem for Fréchet Surfaces (page 27)
    • It is well known that a Peano space is a cactoid if and only if each of its true cyclic elements is a 2-sphere.

    factoid

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An inaccurate statement or statistic believed to be true because of broad repetition, especially if cited in the media.
  • An interesting item of trivia.