单词 | knotfulness |
释义 | knotfulnessn. Geometry. The number of knots of less knottiness of which a more complex knot is made up: see knot n.1 9. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > geometry > curve > [noun] > knot or knotfulness knot1877 knotfulness1877 knottiness1877 knottedness1909 1877 Tait Knots in Trans. Royal Soc. Edinb. (1879) XXVIII. i. 177 The term Beknottedness will be used to signify the peculiar property in which knots, even when of the same order of knottiness, may thus differ... Another property, which may be called Knotfulness—to indicate the number of knots of lower orders (whether interlinked or not) of which a given knot is in many cases built up. 1885 Tait Knots in Trans. Royal Soc. Edinb. (1887) XXXII. iii. 504 This is a difficulty of a very formidable order. It depends upon the property which I have called knotfulness. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1877 |
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