English Explanatory Dictionary

lake of Wada

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of three disjoint connected open sets of the plane or open unit square with the counterintuitive property that they all have the same boundary.

Word forms

lake of Wada lakes of Wada

Etymology

Calque of Japanese 和田の湖. Introduced by Kunizo Yoneyama (in 1917), who credited the discovery to Takeo Wada.

Related words

Wada basin Wada property
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