Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

nonorientable

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: nonori-entable
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Not able to be oriented.

Example Sentences

"The Möbius strip is a nonorientable surface."
"Through every point of a nonorientable surface there passes a Möbius-like nonorientable strip (with an odd number of half-twists) which is part of that surface."

Etymology

Etymology tree English non- English orient Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English orientable English nonorientable From non- + orientable.

Antonyms

orientable

Questions

What does nonorientable mean?: Not able to be oriented.
Where does nonorientable come from?: Etymology tree English non- English orient Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English orientable English nonorientable From non- + orientable.

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