Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

superslice

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: su-per-slice
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A knot for which there is an almost identical trivial knot.

noun

A slice that is an amalgamation of smaller slices.

adj

Having the property of being a superslice.

Example Sentences

"The Kinoshita-Terasaka knot K_(KT), illustrated in Fig. 1 is the first example of a superslice, which has been know at latest in 1970 by R.H. Fox, F. Hosokawa, T. Yangawa and others."
"These transformations occur only if all bit slices within a superslice have identical context (e.g., all bit slice input ports a within a superslice have the constant value 0 applied from the outside). Otherwise, the superslice is left unchanged."
"Answering a question of Livingston-Meier, we find smoothly slice (in fact doubly slice) knots in the 3-sphere with Alexander polynomial equal to 1 that are not smoothly superslice.."

Etymology

From super- + slice.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: super

Inflected Forms

superslices (plural)

Questions

What does superslice mean?: A knot for which there is an almost identical trivial knot.
Where does superslice come from?: From super- + slice.

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