👉 Plicateness, also known as "plicating" or "spreading out," is a mathematical concept in topology. It refers to the phenomenon where two sets are connected by paths that do not necessarily pass through the middle of each set, but rather spread out from one end towards the other. In topology, plicateness is often used to describe the behavior of planar graphs or manifolds where the edges connecting two points tend to be non-intersecting and spread out
