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bicombings

bicombings is the plural of bicombing.

Meaning of bicombing

Noun

bicombing (plural bicombings)

  1. A selection of a path for which two points moving simultaneously along lines that begin and end at a distance less than or equal to 1 apart always remain within a specified bounded distance of each other, independent of the lengths of the paths.
    • In this paper, we prove the Cartan-Hadamard Theorem in a more general setting, namely for spaces which are not uniquely geodesic but locally possess a suitable selection of geodesics, a so-called convex bicombing.2015, Benjamin Miesch, “The Cartan-Hadamard Theorem for Metric Spaces with Local Bicombings”, in arXiv

Questions about bicombings

What is bicombings the plural of?
Bicombings is the plural of bicombing.

Words near bicombings in the dictionary

  1. bicolourous
  2. bicolours
  3. bicolpate
  4. bicolumnar
  5. bicombing
  6. bicombings
  7. bicomissural
  8. bicommissural
  9. bicommisural
  10. bicommunal
  11. bicommunalism

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