pseudo-umbilical

A form of pseudoumbilical — Umbilical in the direction of the mean curvature vector field everywhere.

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Meanings

adjectivepseudo-umbilical (not comparable)
  1. alternativenot comparableAlternative form of pseudoumbilical.

    This near-term gray reef pup bears a pseudo-umbilical cord that connects the young shark to maternal tissue.

    1993, Leighton R. Taylor, Sharks of Hawaii: Their Biology and Cultural Significance, →ISBN, page 15
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    Between these two options, lies a third: a pseudo-umbilical linkage: “I toyed briefly with the idea of attaching him to me by means of a long rope, its two ends tied about our waists.

    2011, P. Stewart, Sex and Aesthetics in Samuel Beckett's Work, →ISBN

    If there exists a function X on the submanifold M such that (h(x, y), H) = X(x, y) for any vector fields x and y on M, then M is called a pseudo-umbilical submanifold.

    2012, Vladimir Rovenski, Foliations on Riemannian Manifolds and Submanifolds, →ISBN, page 130
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