Brunnian link
nounEtymology
Named after Hermann Brunn, whose 1892 article Über Verkettung included examples of such links.
Definitions
A nontrivial link that becomes a set of trivial unlinked circles if any one component is…
A nontrivial link that becomes a set of trivial unlinked circles if any one component is removed. In other words, cutting any loop frees all the other loops.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for Brunnian link. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA