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- noun The three-
tangle pretzel knot with tworight-handed twists in its first tangle, threeleft-handed ones in its second, and seven left-handed ones in its third.
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After Ronald Fintushel and Ronald J. Stern, seemingly because of their 1980 paper "Constructing Lens Spaces by Surgery on Knots".
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