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adj
Placed in or among, as if woven together.
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Usage: not-comparable
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adj
Whose characteristic abelian subgroups are cyclic.
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Usage: not-comparable
Topics: group-theory, mathematics, sciences
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adj
That is alternating and nondegenerate.
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Usage: not-comparable
Qualifier: multilinear algebra
Topics: mathematics, sciences
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adj
That is equipped with an alternating nondegenerate bilinear form.
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Usage: not-comparable
Qualifier: multilinear algebra
Topics: mathematics, sciences
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adj
Of or pertaining to (the geometry of) a differentiable manifold equipped with a closed nondegenerate bilinear form.
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Usage: not-comparable
Topics: mathematics, sciences
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adj
That moves in the same direction as a system of synchronized waves.
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Usage: not-comparable
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adj
Of or pertaining to a symplectite; symplectitic.
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Usage: not-comparable
Topics: chemistry, geography, geology, mineralogy, natural-sciences, petrology, physical-sciences
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noun
A symplectic bilinear form, manifold, geometry, etc.
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Topics: mathematics, sciences
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noun
A bone in the teleostean fishes that forms the lower ossification of the suspensorium, and which articulates below with the quadrate bone by which it is firmly held.
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Topics: biology, ichthyology, natural-sciences, zoology
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History
A calque of complex, coined by Hermann Weyl in his 1939 book The Classical Groups: Their Invariants and Representations. From Ancient Greek συμπλεκτικός (sumplektikós), from συμ (sum) (variant of σύν (sún)), + πλεκτικός (plektikós) (from πλέκω (plékō)); modelled on complex (from Latin complexus (“braided together”), from com- (“together”) + plectere (“to weave, braid”)). The symplectic group has previously been called the line complex group.
