multitwist

plural multitwists

1. Multiple twists that occur together.

   Twist both the 1" bubbles in the multitwist into bear ears.

   2010, Jeremy Telford, Balloonology, →ISBN, page 122

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   Yarns highlighted include wools, stretch yarns, metallics, textures, multicolored, and multitwists.

   1998, Textile Technology Digest - Volume 55, Issues 7-12, page 34

   The multitwists of her black hair curtained like rivers down her frontal.

   2016, Vicky Glasgow, The Mage Emperor, →ISBN

2. mathematicsAn automorphism that induces a set of Dehn twists around a surface.

   A Leininger-Reid subgroup cannot be convex cocompact, because it contains a multitwist.

   2007, Athanase Papadopoulos, Handbook of Teichmüller Theory - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 407

1. not comparableCharacterized by multiple twists.

   For multitwist cords, the symbol for direction of twist of the single yarns is given first, with each subsequent direction following in order.

   1951, National Park Service Archeological Research Series, page 116

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   In most recoilless rifle weapon systems, uniform rifling twist is used since it meets the desired requirements and is less expensive to manufacture than a rifle tube with multitwist rifling.

   1976, Nuri Y. Olcer, Sam Lévin, Recoilless rifle weapon systems, page 10-28

   There's not a dull moment in this . . . shocking tale of evil family ties by a psychologically perceptive writer who knows how to build up to a searing, multitwist ending the way a tornado gathers momentum.

   1983, Craig Jones, Fatal attraction, →ISBN, page 286