The Collaborative International Dictionary
Symplectic
Symplectic \Sym*plec"tic\, a. [Gr. ? plaiting together, fr. ? to plait together.] (Anat.) Plaiting or joining together; -- said of a bone next above the quadrate in the mandibular suspensorium of many fishes, which unites together the other bones of the suspensorium. -- n. The symplectic bone.
Wiktionary
symplectic
a. (context mathematics English) Describing the geometry of differentiable manifolds equipped with a closed, nondegenerate 2-form
Wikipedia
Symplectic
Symplectic may refer to:
in Mathematics:
- Symplectic Clifford algebra, see Weyl algebra
- Symplectic geometry
- Symplectic group
- Symplectic integrator
- Symplectic manifold
- Symplectic matrix
- Symplectic representation
- Symplectic vector space
in Biology:
- Symplectic bone, a bone found in fish skulls