Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

klein bottle

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.65 in modern English

Syllables: klein bot-tle
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The closed manifold obtained by identifying the boundary components of the annulus so that the resultant surface is nonorientable.

noun

A physical bottle, usually of blown glass, made to resemble said shape.

Example Sentences

"At this level Atman and Brahman are like a Klein bottle or a Möbius strip: there is no edge where one can say that this is Atman, but this is Brahman."

Etymology

Calque of German Kleinsche Flasche, named after German mathematician Felix Klein (1849–1925), who first described such a surface in 1882.

Inflected Forms

Klein bottles (plural)

Questions

What does klein bottle mean?: The closed manifold obtained by identifying the boundary components of the annulus so that the resultant surface is nonorientable.
Where does klein bottle come from?: Calque of German Kleinsche Flasche, named after German mathematician Felix Klein (1849–1925), who first described such a surface in 1882.

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