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thrackle

thrackle noun: an embedding of a graph in the plane, such that each edge is a Jordan arc and every pair of edges meet once.

Noun

thrackle (plural thrackles)

  1. An embedding of a graph in the plane, such that each edge is a Jordan arc and every pair of edges meet once.
    • We prove that a thrackle drawing containing a standard musquash (standard n-gonal thrackle) cannot contain any other cycle of length three or five.2016, Grace Misereh, Yuri Nikolayevsky, “Thrackles containing a standard musquash”, in arXiv

Forms of thrackle

pluralthrackles

Origin of thrackle

Scots term for a fouled fishing line, which Conway heard when visiting Scotland.

Questions about thrackle

What does thrackle mean?
Thrackle means an embedding of a graph in the plane, such that each edge is a Jordan arc and every pair of edges meet once.
What part of speech is thrackle?
Thrackle is a noun.
What is the plural of thrackle?
The plural of thrackle is thrackles.

Words near thrackle in the dictionary

  1. thraciid
  2. thraciids
  3. thrack
  4. thracked
  5. thracking
  6. thrackle
  7. thrackles
  8. thracks
  9. thrackscat
  10. Thraco-
  11. Thraco-Dacian

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