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multitwists

multitwists is the plural of multitwist.

Meaning of multitwist

Noun

multitwist (plural multitwists)

  1. 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
  2. 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

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Questions about multitwists

What is multitwists the plural of?
Multitwists is the plural of multitwist.

Words near multitwists in the dictionary

  1. multiturbine
  2. multiturn
  3. multiturret
  4. multiturreted
  5. multitwist
  6. multitwists
  7. multitype
  8. multityrosine
  9. multiubiquitin
  10. multiubiquitinated
  11. multiubiquitination

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