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Fintushel-Stern knot

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

The three-tangle pretzel knot with two right-handed twists in its first tangle, three left-handed ones in its second, and seven left-handed ones in its third.

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Etymology

After Ronald Fintushel and Ronald J. Stern, seemingly because of their 1980 paper "Constructing Lens Spaces by Surgery on Knots".