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nonorientable

nonorientable adjective: not able to be oriented.

Adjective

nonorientable (not comparable)

  1. Not able to be oriented.
    • The Möbius strip is a nonorientable surface.
    • Through every point of a nonorientable surface there passes a Möbius-like nonorientable strip (with an odd number of half-twists) which is part of that surface.

Antonyms of nonorientable

Origin of nonorientable

From non- + orientable.

Questions about nonorientable

What does nonorientable mean?
Nonorientable means not able to be oriented.
What part of speech is nonorientable?
Nonorientable is an adjective.

Words near nonorientable in the dictionary

  1. nonorganizations
  2. nonorganized
  3. nonorganometallic
  4. nonorgasmic
  5. nonorientability
  6. nonorientable
  7. nonoriental
  8. nonoriented
  9. nonoriginal
  10. nonoriginalism
  11. nonoriginalist

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