Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

thrackle

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: thrack-le
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An embedding of a graph in the plane, such that each edge is a Jordan arc and every pair of edges meet once.

Example Sentences

"We prove that a thrackle drawing containing a standard musquash (standard n-gonal thrackle) cannot contain any other cycle of length three or five."

Etymology

Scots term for a fouled fishing line, which Conway heard when visiting Scotland.

Inflected Forms

thrackles (plural)

Questions

What does thrackle mean?: An embedding of a graph in the plane, such that each edge is a Jordan arc and every pair of edges meet once.
Where does thrackle come from?: Scots term for a fouled fishing line, which Conway heard when visiting Scotland.

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