Symplectic

Quick meaning: Symplectic is an adjective meaning Placed in or among, as if woven together.

Meaning

Placed in or among, as if woven together.

More Meanings

1. (group theory, of a group) Whose characteristic abelian subgroups are cyclic.
2. (mathematics, multilinear algebra, of a bilinear form) That is alternating and nondegenerate.
3. (mathematics, multilinear algebra, of a vector space) That is equipped with an alternating nondegenerate bilinear form.
4. (mathematics) Of or pertaining to (the geometry of) a differentiable manifold equipped with a closed nondegenerate bilinear form.
5. That moves in the same direction as a system of synchronized waves.
6. (petrology, mineralogy) Of or pertaining to a symplectite; symplectitic.
7. (mathematics) A symplectic bilinear form, manifold, geometry, etc.

Example Sentences

In many teleosts, on the other hand, including the catfishes, the symplectics have been entirely lost.

The symplectics (Fig. 8, sym) are thin slender bones placed vertically in between the quadrates and the hyomandibulars.

There exist interesting and unexplored relations between symplectic geometry and the theory of critical points of holomorphic functions.

The symplectics (9) consist of a somewhat curved central triangular portion with the base upward, and anteriorly and posteriorly from this extends a wing-like process.

Word Forms

• symplectics

Antonyms for symplectic

Common opposites include antiplectic.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include intergrowth, integrators, pleached, interplaited, contextured, entwined.

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