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fintushel-stern knot

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
fin-tushel-stern -knot
IPA
28
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
4
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The three-tangle pretzel knot with two right-handed twists in its first tangle, three left-handed ones in its second, and seven left-handed ones in its third.

Etymology

After Ronald Fintushel and Ronald J. Stern, seemingly because of their 1980 paper "Constructing Lens Spaces by Surgery on Knots".

Inflected Forms

Fintushel-Stern knots (plural)

Synonyms

pretzel knot

Questions

What does fintushel-stern knot mean?
The three-tangle pretzel knot with two right-handed twists in its first tangle, three left-handed ones in its second, and seven left-handed ones in its third.
Where does fintushel-stern knot come from?
After Ronald Fintushel and Ronald J. Stern, seemingly because of their 1980 paper "Constructing Lens Spaces by Surgery on Knots".

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