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knight's tour

knight's tour noun: a sequence of positions on a chessboard, including each square precisely once, and where successive positions are a knight's move away from one another.

knight's tour: a sequence of positions on a chessboard, including each square precisely once, and where successive...
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Noun

knight's tour (plural knight's tours)

  1. A sequence of positions on a chessboard, including each square precisely once, and where successive positions are a knight's move away from one another.
  2. A similar sequence on a board of any size or shape.

Forms of knight's tour

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Questions about knight's tour

What does knight's tour mean?
Knight's tour means a sequence of positions on a chessboard, including each square precisely once, and where successive positions are a knight's move away from one another.
What part of speech is knight's tour?
Knight's tour is a noun.
What is the plural of knight's tour?
The plural of knight's tour is knight's tours.

Words near knight's tour in the dictionary

  1. Knight Templary
  2. knight's fee
  3. knight's pawn
  4. knight's pawns
  5. knight's spur
  6. knight's tour
  7. knight's tours
  8. Knight-Darwin law
  9. knight-errant
  10. knight-errantries
  11. knight-errantry

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