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thrackles

thrackles is the plural of thrackle.

Meaning of thrackle

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

Questions about thrackles

What is thrackles the plural of?
Thrackles is the plural of thrackle.

Words near thrackles in the dictionary

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

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