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Haken

Haken adjective: irreducible, compact, and containing a non-∂-parallel incompressible surface (besides a sphere or disk).

Adjective

Haken (not comparable)

  1. Irreducible, compact, and containing a non-∂-parallel incompressible surface (besides a sphere or disk).

Origin of Haken

For Wolfgang Haken, who studied these manifolds.

Questions about Haken

What does Haken mean?
Haken means irreducible, compact, and containing a non-∂-parallel incompressible surface (besides a sphere or disk).
What part of speech is Haken?
Haken is an adjective.

Words near Haken in the dictionary

  1. haked
  2. hakeds
  3. hakeem
  4. hakeems
  5. hakelike
  6. Haken
  7. hakenkreuz
  8. hakenkreuzes
  9. hakes
  10. Haketia
  11. haketon

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