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handlebody

noun

Etymology

From handle + body.

  1. derived from *bʰewdʰ-✻ — “to be awake, observe”
  2. inherited from *bodag✻ — “body, trunk”
  3. inherited from bodiġ
  4. inherited from body
  5. compounded as handlebody — “handle + body”

Definitions

  1. A top-dimensional submanifold of Euclidean space comprising a ball with handles attached…

    A top-dimensional submanifold of Euclidean space comprising a ball with handles attached to it along its boundary.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for handlebody. 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