symplectic
Placed in or among, as if woven togetherPlaced in or among, as if woven together.
Meaning
7 senses(not comparable)Placed in or among, as if woven together.
(not comparable)Whose characteristic abelian subgroups are cyclic.
(not comparable)That is alternating and nondegenerate.
(not comparable)That is equipped with an alternating nondegenerate bilinear form.
(not comparable)Of or pertaining to (the geometry of) a differentiable manifold equipped with a closed nondegenerate bilinear form.
2003, Fabrizio Catanese, Gang Tian (editors), Symplectic 4-Manifolds and Algebraic Surfaces: Lectures given at the C.I.M.E Summer School, Springer, Lecture Notes in Mathematics No. 1938.
(not comparable)That moves in the same direction as a system of synchronized waves.
(not comparable)Of or pertaining to a symplectite; symplectitic.
Origin
A calque of complex, coined by Hermann Weyl in his 1939 book The Classical Groups: Their IA calque of complex, coined by Hermann Weyl in his 1939 book The Classical Groups: Their Invariants and Representations. From Ancient Greek συμπλεκτικός (sumplektikós), from συμ (sum) (variant of σύν (sún)), + πλεκτικός (plektikós) (from πλέκω (plékō)); modelled on complex (from Latin complexus (“braided together”), from com- (“together”) + plectere (“to weave, braid”)).
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