Usually means: Geometry preserving structure of Hamiltonian systems.
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  1. symplectic: Merriam-Webster
  2. symplectic: Wordnik
  3. symplectic: Wiktionary
  4. Symplectic, symplectic: Dictionary.com
  5. Symplectic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. Symplectic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. symplectic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. Symplectic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. symplectic: FreeDictionary.org
  10. Symplectic: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (symplectic)

adjective:  Placed in or among, as if woven together.
adjective:  (group theory, of a group) Whose characteristic abelian subgroups are cyclic.
adjective:  (mathematics, multilinear algebra, of a bilinear form) That is alternating and nondegenerate.
adjective:  (mathematics, multilinear algebra, of a vector space) That is equipped with an alternating nondegenerate bilinear form.
adjective:  (mathematics) Of or pertaining to (the geometry of) a differentiable manifold equipped with a closed nondegenerate bilinear form.
adjective:  That moves in the same direction as a system of synchronized waves.
adjective:  (petrology, mineralogy) Of or pertaining to a symplectite; symplectitic.
noun:  (mathematics) A symplectic bilinear form, manifold, geometry, etc.
noun:  (ichthyology) A bone in the teleostean fishes that forms the lower ossification of the suspensorium, and which articulates below with the quadrate bone by which it is firmly held.

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