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Meaning of "trefoil knot"
trefoil knot ~ a type of knot that consists of three loops interlaced in a specific geometric pattern. It is often used symbolically to represent unity, protection, or interconnectedness
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- A knot formed by joining the two loose ends of a overhand knot to form a knotted loop; the simplest non-trivial knot.
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trefoil knot
The right handed trefoil knot.
The trefoil knot is the only prime knot with three crossings.
Examples include the trefoil knot.
A molecular knot in a trefoil knot configuration is chiral, having at least two enantiomers.
Triquetra interlaced to form a trefoil knot.
In addition, the mirror image of a trefoil knot is also considered to be a trefoil.
Which is simply the square of the Alexander polynomial of a trefoil knot.
A tricolored trefoil knot.
Topologically, the interlaced form of the plain triquetra is a trefoil knot.
The Möbius strip in the shape of a trefoil knot is another symbol of immortality.
It computes the Alexander-Conway polynomial of the trefoil knot.
Specifically, any curve isotopic to a trefoil knot is also considered to be a trefoil.
Some homeomorphisms are not continuous deformations, such as the homeomorphism between a trefoil knot and a circle.
Mathematically, this means that a trefoil knot is not isotopic to the unknot.
The braid group B3 in turn is isomorphic to the knot group of the trefoil knot.
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In topology, a branch of mathematics, the trefoil knot is the simplest example of a nontrivial knot.
The trefoil knot has tunnel number 1.
A knot diagram of the trefoil knot.
The trefoil knot is named after the three-leaf clover ( or trefoil ) plant.
The symbol appears in unicursal form, topologically a trefoil knot also seen in the triquetra.
Pentagram Trefoil knot 7 ₁ knot Skein relation.
The left-handed trefoil knot.
Thus the trefoil knot is notated 31 and the Hopf link is 2.
The right-handed trefoil knot.
Here, 4 crossings can be unfolded, we get the trefoil knot.
Nota, the case ( n, n-1 ) is equivalent to the alternated generalized trefoil knot with n leaves.
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