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brunnian link

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
brun-ni-an link
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A nontrivial link that becomes a set of trivial unlinked circles if any one component is removed. In other words, cutting any loop frees all the other loops.

Etymology

Named after Hermann Brunn, whose 1892 article Über Verkettung included examples of such links.

Inflected Forms

Brunnian links (plural)

Questions

What does brunnian link mean?
A nontrivial link that becomes a set of trivial unlinked circles if any one component is removed. In other words, cutting any loop frees all the other loops.
Where does brunnian link come from?
Named after Hermann Brunn, whose 1892 article Über Verkettung included examples of such links.

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