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(mathematics, of a 3-dimensional manifold) Geometrically atoroidal.
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(physics) A worldline that returns to its starting point.
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(mathematics, physics) The dual of an orbit
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(physics) the fundamental symmetry of physical laws under transformations that involve the simultaneous inversions of charge, parity and time
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Any n-dimensional surface (or line) having a constant scalar potential
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(physics, engineering) Radius of gyration.
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(specifically, Euclidean geometry) A rotation around an axis which is not the centre of rotational symmetry; an eccentric or off-centre rotation.
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(mathematics) A gyrovector space addition.
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(mathematics) An angle in gyrovector space.
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(mathematics) An automorphism in gyrovector space.
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(mathematics) The average over a gyroperiod; a gyrophase average.
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(mathematics) The center of an object in gyrovector space.
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Alternative form of gyrocenter [(mathematics) The center of an object in gyrovector space.]
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(mathematics) A centroid in gyrovector space.
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(mathematics) A hyperbolic circle in gyrovector space.
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(mathematics) A diagonal in gyrovector space.
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(physics) A transformation by a gyrovector; an arbitrary position-dependent rotation.
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(mathematics) A geodesic in gyrovector space.
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(mathematics) An infinitely connected periodic minimal surface containing no straight lines.
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(mathematics) A line in gyrovector space.
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(mathematics) A midpoint in gyrovector space.
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(mathematics) A quadrilateral in gyrovector space.
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(mathematics) A rotation in gyrovector space.
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(mathematics) A translation in gyrovector space.
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(mathematics) A triangle in gyrovector space.
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(mathematics) The use of gyroconcepts to study hyperbolic triangles.
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(mathematics) A type of vector for which addition is defined by a formula that satisfies the axioms for a gyrogroup.
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(mathematics) The surface created by the rotation of a rigid body
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(physics, mathematics) A curve described by the moving extremity of a line whose other end is fixed, this line being constantly parallel to the direction of motion of, and having its length constantly proportional to the velocity of, a point moving in any path; used in investigations respecting central forces.
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(physics, of a nucleus) Very far from spherical and even more than superdeformed, forming an ellipsoid with axes in ratios of approximately 3:1:1 (as opposed to the norm of approximately 1.3:1:1).
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(physics) A specific type of four-dimensional supermultiplet that involves a spinor
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(geometry) The radius of a hypersphere
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(physics) Pertaining to spin orbitals of the complementary subspace (orthogonal to all closed-shell orbitals and all virtual orbitals).
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(calculus) Having zero curl.
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(mathematics) An isoparametric curve
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(computer graphics) An isoparametric curve.
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(computer graphics, geometry) A surface that represents points of a constant value within a volume of space
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(mathematics) monotone nondecreasing.
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(mathematics) A topological space or generalization of an orbifold.
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(physics) A theorem that states the moment of inertia of a rigid body about any axis is equal to its moment of inertia about a parallel axis through its center of mass plus the product of the mass of the body and the square of the distance between the two parallel axes.
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(physics) A theorem that states the moment of inertia of a planar lamina (i.e. 2-D body) about an axis perpendicular to the plane of the lamina is equal to the sum of the moments of inertia of the lamina about the two axes at right angles to each other, in its own plane intersecting each other at the point where the perpendicular axis passes through it.
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(electronics) Angular component of the vector representation of a sinusoid.
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(mathematics) The coordinates of a point in a plane, measured as its Cartesian distance from the origin and the angle measured anticlockwise/counterclockwise from the x-axis to a line joining the point to the origin.
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(physics) Having the same total and azimuthal quantum numbers, similar energy values, but different inner quantum numbers.
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Abbreviation of radian. [(geometry) In the International System of Units, the derived unit of plane angular measure of angle equal to the angle subtended at the centre of a circle by an arc of its circumference equal in length to the radius of the circle. Symbol: rad]
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(mathematics, for any point on a curve) The radius of the osculating circle at the point on the curve
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(physics, engineering) Given a body B, the distance from a given axis of rotation at which a point mass of the same mass as B would have the same moment of inertia about said axis.
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(topology, complex analysis) The 2-sphere embedded in Euclidean three-dimensional space and often represented as a unit sphere, regarded as a homeomorphic representation of the extended complex plane and thus the extended complex numbers.
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(mathematics) Any of a class of solutions to the n-body problem, in a curved space, whose configuration rotates during the motion.
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(mathematics) Any rigid transformation (Euclidean isometry) that involves rotation and translation
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A conjecture within holography that posits a quantitative relationship between the entanglement entropy of a conformal field theory and the geometry of an associated anti-de Sitter spacetime.
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(physics) either of the first, second or third components of a four-vector
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(physics, of a nucleus) Very far from spherical, forming an ellipsoid with axes in ratios of approximately 2:1:1 (as opposed to the norm of approximately 1.3:1:1).
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(mathematics, physics) A superspace projection operator
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(applied mathematics) A curve in which the law of the velocity is given.
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(mathematics, physics) Any of the complex-valued coordinates in twistor theory, which maps the geometric objects of conventional 3+1 space-time into geometric objects in a four-dimensional space, twistor space, with metric signature (2,2), a proposed path to a theory of quantum gravity.
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(mathematics) The vertices in a Voronoi diagram that are farthest from the point defining a cell. In particular, a positive pole is farthest from the defining point, and the negative pole is farthest from the defining point on the other side of the cell from the positive pole, where "other side" refers to vertices for which the angle formed by a vector from the defining point to the vertex with the vector from the defining point to the positive pole is greater than π/2.
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(differential geometry) A quantitative measure of how much a given surface deviates from a round sphere.
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