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Klein bottle en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. The closed manifold obtained by identifying the boundary components of the annulus so that the resultant surface is nonorientable.
   • At this level Atman and Brahman are like a Klein bottle or a Möbius strip: there is no edge where one can say that this is Atman, but this is Brahman. 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 222:
2. A physical bottle, usually of blown glass, made to resemble said shape.

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Translations (13)

ko 클라인 병 (closed surface) · fr bouteille de Klein (closed surface) · fi Kleinin pullo (closed surface) · es botella de Klein (closed surface) · ja クラインの壺 (closed surface) · ru буты́лка Клейна (closed surface) · de Kleinsche Flasche (closed surface) · pt garrafa de Klein (closed surface) · cs Kleinova láhev (closed surface) · it otre di Klein (closed surface) · pl butelka Kleina (closed surface) · hu Klein kancsó (closed surface) · it bottiglia di Klein (closed surface)