English Explanatory Dictionary

Klein bottle

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The closed manifold obtained by identifying the boundary components of the annulus so that the resultant surface is nonorientable.
  2. A physical bottle, usually of blown glass, made to resemble said shape.

Word forms

Klein bottle Klein bottles

Etymology

Calque of German Kleinsche Flasche, named after German mathematician Felix Klein (1849–1925), who first described such a surface in 1882.

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