Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cobordism

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.01 in modern English

Syllables: cobor-dism
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A connection between two manifolds of the same dimension n via a manifold of dimension n+1, where the smaller manifolds are included in the boundary of the larger manifold.

Countable

noun

The theory and study of such objects.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"2008 April, John R. Harper, "Generalized cohomology, by Akira Kono and Dai Tamaki" (book review), Bulletin (New Series) of the American Mathematical Society volume 45 number 2, page 310, Cobordism revives the intuitive idea of bounding harbored in the original work of Poincaré but later sacrificed in order to construct a viable theory based on simpicial complexes."

Usage

Inflected Forms

cobordisms (plural)

Derived Forms

endocobordism

Questions

What does cobordism mean?: A connection between two manifolds of the same dimension n via a manifold of dimension n+1, where the smaller manifolds are included in the boundary of the larger manifold.

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