English Explanatory Dictionary

Brunnian link

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A nontrivial link that becomes a set of trivial unlinked circles if any one component is removed. In other words, cutting any loop frees all the other loops.

Word forms

Brunnian link Brunnian links

Etymology

Named after Hermann Brunn, whose 1892 article Über Verkettung included examples of such links.

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