Möbius strip
See also: Mobius strip and Moebius strip
Möbius strip.
English
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Etymology
After the German mathematician and discoverer of the Möbius strip August Ferdinand Möbius (1790-1868), + strip.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈməʊ.biː.əs stɹɪp/
Noun
Möbius strip (plural Möbius strips)
- (topology) A one-sided surface formed by identifying two opposite edges of a square in opposite senses.
- A narrow strip given a half twist and joined at the ends, forming a three-dimensional embedding of the above.
- 2013 November 16, Patrick McGuinness, “Who's afraid of Marcel Proust?”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), page R20:
- Proust's novel grew and deepened into over 3,000 pages of everything and nothing: a Möbius strip of profundity twisting into mundanity, mundanity twisting into profundity.
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Synonyms
- Möbius band
- twisted cylinder (rare)
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Translations
one-sided surface
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narrow strip given a half twist
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