nef
/nɛf/
nef noun: an extravagant table ornament and container used in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, made in the shape of a ship.
Noun
nef (plural nefs)
- An extravagant table ornament and container used in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, made in the shape of a ship.
Adjective
nef (not comparable)
- Of a line bundle on a complete algebraic variety over a field: such that the degree of its restriction to every algebraic curve in the variety is non-negative.
- […] this condition is the numerical consequence of the condition that for some mgt;0, the linear system #124;mD#124; is effective and free; thus nef = "numerically (effective and free)".1983, Miles Reid, “Minimal Models of Canonical 3-Folds”, in Advanced Studies in Pure Mathematics, volume 1, page 131
Forms of nef
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Origin of nef
Borrowed from French nef. Doublet of nave and nau.
Short for numerically effective; introduced by Miles Reid.
Words formed from nef
Words that rhyme with nef
Questions about nef
- What does nef mean?
- Nef means an extravagant table ornament and container used in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, made in the shape of a ship.
- What part of speech is nef?
- Nef can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce nef?
- Nef is pronounced /nɛf/.
- What is the plural of nef?
- The plural of nef is nefs.
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