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sweepout

sweepout noun: the act or result of sweeping out.

Noun

sweepout (plural sweepouts)

  1. The act or result of sweeping out
    • We use this result to construct a sweepout of M by 1-cycles of length at most Cvol(M³,g)#123;1#47;3#125; and prove a systolic inequality for all M#92;neqS³. The sweepout of surfaces is generated from a min-max minimal surface.2015, Yevgeny Liokumovich, Xin Zhou, “Sweeping out 3-manifold of positive Ricci curvature by short 1-cycles via estimates of min-max surfaces”, in arXiv

Forms of sweepout

pluralsweepouts

Questions about sweepout

What does sweepout mean?
Sweepout means the act or result of sweeping out.
What part of speech is sweepout?
Sweepout is a noun.
What is the plural of sweepout?
The plural of sweepout is sweepouts.

Words near sweepout in the dictionary

  1. sweeplike
  2. sweepline
  3. sweeplines
  4. sweepnet
  5. sweepnets
  6. sweepout
  7. sweepouts
  8. sweepovirus
  9. sweepoviruses
  10. sweeps
  11. sweeps along

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