Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A continuous one-sided surface that can be formed from a rectangular strip by rotating one end 180° and attaching it to the other end.
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- noun topology A
one-sided surface formed by identifying two opposite edges of a square in opposite senses. - noun A narrow strip given a half twist and joined at the ends, forming a three-dimensional embedding of the above.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After August Ferdinand Möbius, (1790–1868), German mathematician.]
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After the German mathematician and discoverer of the Möbius strip August Ferdinand Möbius (1790-1868), + strip.
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