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The study of mathematical objects near these features is called monodromy. The movable type of these features (15[1])are subject to the Painlevé property. An analytic function must take on all complex values except one infinitely often near one type of these features according (15[1])to the Great Picard Theorem. The degree of the principal part of a Laurent series is used to classify these features, as an infinite amount of negative degree terms means one of these features is (*) essential. When an analytic function is bounded in a punctured neighborhood of one of these points, then it is called (10[1])removable. The residue theorem helps calculate line integrals of holomorphic functions with these values inside the contour. One example of these points for the function 1 over z is at z equals 0. For 10 points, name these values contrasted with discontinuities for which a function is not defined. ■END■

ANSWER: singularities [or singularity; accept poles; accept essential singularities, accept branch points; reject “discontinuities”]
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