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Dehn surgeries

Dehn surgeries is the plural of Dehn surgery.

Meaning of Dehn surgery

Noun

Dehn surgery (countable and uncountable, plural Dehn surgeries)

  1. The removal of a solid torus from a 3-dimensional manifold, followed by its being replaced via a homeomorphism of its boundary.
  2. (specifically) The same, but with the manifold in question being the 3-dimensional sphere.

Questions about Dehn surgeries

What is Dehn surgeries the plural of?
Dehn surgeries is the plural of Dehn surgery.

Words near Dehn surgeries in the dictionary

  1. Dehler
  2. Dehlers
  3. Dehlin
  4. Dehlins
  5. Dehn
  6. Dehn surgeries
  7. Dehn surgery
  8. Dehnert
  9. Dehnerts
  10. Dehns
  11. dehnstufe

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