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quandle

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
quan-dle
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A rack, scriptstyle Q,, such that scriptstyle ∀a;∈;Q a triangleright a=a or equivalently a triangleleft a=a.

Etymology

Coined by David Joyce in his 1982 paper A classifying invariant of knots: the knot quandle.

Inflected Forms

quandles (plural)

Derived Forms

biquandle

Questions

What does quandle mean?
A rack, scriptstyle Q,, such that scriptstyle ∀a;∈;Q a triangleright a=a or equivalently a triangleleft a=a.
Where does quandle come from?
Coined by David Joyce in his 1982 paper A classifying invariant of knots: the knot quandle.

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