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Symplectic
Sym-plec′tic
,Adj.
[Gr. [GREEK] plaiting together, fr. [GREEK] to plait together.]
(Anat.)
Plaiting or joining together; – said of a bone next above the quadrate in the mandibular suspensorium of many fishes, which unites together the other bones of the suspensorium.
– Noun.
The symplectic bone.
Definition 2024
symplectic
symplectic
English
Adjective
symplectic (not comparable)
- (mathematics) Describing the geometry of differentiable manifolds equipped with a closed, nondegenerate 2-form
External links
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References
- The Classical Groups. Their Invariants and Representations, Hermann Weyl; Princeton University Press, 1939 (ISBN 978-0-691-05756-9), footnote, p. 165
- The Symplectization of Science, Mark J. Gotay and James A. Isenberg, p. 13