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noun
A nontrivial link that becomes a set of trivial unlinked circles if any one component is removed. In other words, cutting any loop frees all the other loops.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: mathematics, sciences, topology
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History
Named after Hermann Brunn, whose 1892 article Über Verkettung included examples of such links.
