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noun
Any of three disjoint connected open sets of the plane or open unit square with the counterintuitive property that they all have the same boundary.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: mathematics, sciences
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History
Calque of Japanese 和田の湖. Introduced by Kunizo Yoneyama (in 1917), who credited the discovery to Takeo Wada.
