symplectic
A symplectic bilinear form, manifold, geometry, etcA symplectic bilinear form, manifold, geometry, etc.
Meaning
2 sensesA symplectic bilinear form, manifold, geometry, etc.
A bone in the teleostean fishes that forms the lower ossification of the suspensorium, and which articulates below with the quadrate bone by which it is firmly held.
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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Forms
plural: symplectics| Singular | symplectic |
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regular
See also
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