English Explanatory Dictionary

adinkra

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of a set of visual symbols representing concepts or aphorisms, originally created by the Akan of Ghana and the Gyaman of Côte d'Ivoire in West Africa, often used as artistic devices.
  2. A graphical representation of supersymmetric algebras, consisting of coloured finite connected simple graphs that are bipartite and n-regular.

Word forms

adinkra adinkras

Etymology

From Akan adinkra.

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