kleinian
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.50 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to Christian Felix Klein (1849–1925), German mathematician.
adj
Of or pertaining to Melanie Reizes Klein (1882–1960), Austrian-born British psychoanalyst who devised novel therapeutic techniques for children.
Example Sentences
- "Prove that if a Kleinian group G does not contain parabolic elements and is isomorphic to the fundamental group of a closed orientable surface, then G is either quasi-Fuchsian or degenerate[…]"
- "The second three months of life, the critical era in the Kleinian narrative, are marked by a shift from the paranoid to the "depressive" position produced by the infant's growing ability to integrate contradictory perceptions."
Etymology
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Inflected Forms
more Kleinian (comparative)
most Kleinian (superlative)