multitwist
multitwist noun: multiple twists that occur together.
Noun
multitwist (plural multitwists)
- Multiple twists that occur together.
- Yarns highlighted include wools, stretch yarns, metallics, textures, multicolored, and multitwists.1998, Textile Technology Digest - Volume 55, Issues 7-12, page 34
- Twist both the 1" bubbles in the multitwist into bear ears.2010, Jeremy Telford, Balloonology, →ISBN, page 122
- An automorphism that induces a set of Dehn twists around a surface.
- A Leininger-Reid subgroup cannot be convex cocompact, because it contains a multitwist.2007, Athanase Papadopoulos, Handbook of Teichmüller Theory - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 407
Adjective
multitwist (not comparable)
- Characterized by multiple twists.
- For multitwist cords, the symbol for direction of twist of the single yarns is given first, with each subsequent direction following in order.1951, National Park Service Archeological Research Series, page 116
- In most recoilless rifle weapon systems, uniform rifling twist is used since it meets the desired requirements and is less expensive to manufacture than a rifle tube with multitwist rifling.1976, Nuri Y. Olcer, Sam Lévin, Recoilless rifle weapon systems, page 10-28
Forms of multitwist
| plural | multitwists |
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Origin of multitwist
From multi- + twist.
Questions about multitwist
- What does multitwist mean?
- Multitwist means multiple twists that occur together.
- What part of speech is multitwist?
- Multitwist can be a noun or an adjective.
- What is the plural of multitwist?
- The plural of multitwist is multitwists.
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