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Brunnian link en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

  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.

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Brunnian links Number=Plur lexicographic