Klein bottle
Klein bottle noun: the closed manifold obtained by identifying the boundary components of the annulus so that the resultant surface is nonorientable.
Noun
Klein bottle (plural Klein bottles)
- The closed manifold obtained by identifying the boundary components of the annulus so that the resultant surface is nonorientable.
- At this level Atman and Brahman are like a Klein bottle or a Möbius strip: there is no edge where one can say that this is Atman, but this is Brahman.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 222
- A physical bottle, usually of blown glass, made to resemble said shape.
Klein bottle meaning in Tamil
Klein bottle in Tamil
- கிளைன் குப்பி
Forms of Klein bottle
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Origin of Klein bottle
Calque of German Kleinsche Flasche, named after German mathematician Felix Klein (1849–1925), who first described such a surface in 1882.
Questions about Klein bottle
- What does Klein bottle mean?
- Klein bottle means the closed manifold obtained by identifying the boundary components of the annulus so that the resultant surface is nonorientable.
- What is Klein bottle in Tamil?
- Klein bottle in Tamil is கிளைன் குப்பி. See Klein bottle meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is Klein bottle?
- Klein bottle is a noun.
- What is the plural of Klein bottle?
- The plural of Klein bottle is Klein bottles.
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