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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.

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symplectic

a. (context mathematics English) Describing the geometry of differentiable manifolds equipped with a closed, nondegenerate 2-form

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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