Projectivization

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In mathematics, projectivization is a procedure which associates with a non-zero vector space V a projective space P(V), whose elements are one-dimensional subspaces of V. More generally, any subset S of V closed under scalar multiplication defines a subset of P(V) formed by the lines contained in S and is called the projectivization of S.^[1]