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lake of Wada

lake of Wada noun: any of three disjoint connected open sets of the plane or open unit square with the counterintuitive property that they all have the same boundary.

Noun

lake of Wada (plural lakes of Wada)

  1. Any of three disjoint connected open sets of the plane or open unit square with the counterintuitive property that they all have the same boundary.

Forms of lake of Wada

plurallakes of Wada

Origin of lake of Wada

Calque of Japanese 和田の湖. Introduced by Kunizo Yoneyama (in 1917), who credited the discovery to Takeo Wada.

Questions about lake of Wada

What does lake of Wada mean?
Lake of Wada means any of three disjoint connected open sets of the plane or open unit square with the counterintuitive property that they all have the same boundary.
What part of speech is lake of Wada?
Lake of Wada is a noun.
What is the plural of lake of Wada?
The plural of lake of Wada is lakes of Wada.

Words near lake of Wada in the dictionary

  1. Lake of Bays
  2. lake of fire
  3. Lake of the Pines
  4. Lake of the Woods
  5. Lake of the Woods County
  6. lake of Wada
  7. Lake Onega
  8. Lake Ontario
  9. Lake Oswego
  10. Lake Panasoffkee
  11. Lake Park

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