pretzel knot

  • 1pretzel knot — noun A pretzel link which is a knot …

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  • 2(−2,3,7) pretzel knot — Diagram of the knot In geometric topology, a branch of mathematics, the (−2, 3, 7) pretzel knot, sometimes called the Fintushel–Stern knot, is an important example of a pretzel knot which exhibits various interesting phenomena under… …

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  • 3(-2, 3, 7) pretzel knot — In geometric topology, the ( 2, 3, 7) pretzel knot, sometimes called the Fintushel Stern knot, is an important example of a pretzel knot which exhibit various interesting phenomena under three dimensional and four dimensional surgery… …

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  • 4Pretzel link — In knot theory, a branch of mathematics, a pretzel link is a special kind of link. A pretzel link which is also a knot (i.e. a link with one component) is a pretzel knot.In the standard projection of the (p 1,p 2,dots,p n) pretzel link, there are …

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  • 5Pretzel Loop — Achterbahn mit den meisten Inversionen: „Colossus“ im Thorpe Park Als Inversion bezeichnet man die Überschlags bzw. Überkopfelemente bei Achterbahnen. Im Volksmund werden die Elemente – ungeachtet ihres Typs – oft allgemein als Looping bezeichnet …

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  • 6pretzel — ► NOUN chiefly N. Amer. ▪ a crisp biscuit baked in the shape of a knot or stick and flavoured with salt. ORIGIN German …

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  • 7pretzel — ☆ pretzel [pret′səl ] n. [Ger brezel < OHG brezitella < ML * brachiatellum, dim. of * brachiatum, biscuit baked in form of crossed arms < L brachium, an arm: see BRACE1] a usually hard, brittle biscuit made from a slender roll of dough… …

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  • 8Pretzel — A pretzel is a bread pastry of German origin, that has the shape of a three looped knot or twisted braid. Pretzels are either soft or hard. Hard pretzels have evolved into a variety of shapes from knotted loops to straight pretzel sticks (called… …

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  • 9Knot (mathematics) — A table of all prime knots with seven crossings or fewer (not including mirror images). In mathematics, a knot is an embedding of a circle in 3 dimensional Euclidean space, R3, considered up to continuous deformations (isotopies). A crucial… …

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  • 10pretzel — /pret seuhl/, n. 1. a crisp, dry biscuit, usually in the form of a knot or stick, salted on the outside. 2. a larger version of this, made of soft, chewy bread dough. [1815 25, Amer.; < G Pretzel, var. of Bretzel; OHG brizzila < ML bracellus&#8230; …

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