nef
Meanings
noun
- An extravagant table ornament and container used in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, made in the shape of a ship.
adj
- Of a line bundle on a complete algebraic variety over a field: such that the degree of its restriction to every algebraic curve in the variety is non-negative.
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Etymology
Borrowed from French nef. Doublet of nave and nau.
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