Phrase guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
No pronunciation record was provided for this word.
noun
A set of points in Euclidean space that contains a unit line segment in every direction.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: mathematics, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: Besicovitch set
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Synonym of Kakeya needle set.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: mathematics, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: Kakeya needle set
Antonyms: none provided
History
Named after Japanese mathematician Sōichi Kakeya.
