Möbius strip.
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Möbius strip (plural Möbius strips)
- (topology) A one-sided surface formed by identifying two opposite edges of a square in opposite senses.
- A narrow strip given a half twist and joined at the ends, forming a three-dimensional embedding of the above.
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2013 November 16, Patrick McGuinness, “Who's afraid of Marcel Proust?”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), page R20:- Proust's novel grew and deepened into over 3,000 pages of everything and nothing: a Möbius strip of profundity twisting into mundanity, mundanity twisting into profundity.
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one-sided surface
- Bulgarian: лист на Мьобиус m (list na Mjobius)
- Catalan: cinta de Möbius f, banda de Möbius f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 莫比烏斯帶. 莫比乌斯带 (mòbǐwūsī dài)
- Czech: Möbiova páska f
- Danish: möbiusbånd n
- Dutch: Möbiusband m
- Finnish: Möbiuksen nauha
- French: ruban de Möbius (fr) m
- Galician: banda de Möbius f
- German: Möbiusband n
- Hebrew: טבעת מביוס f
- Hungarian: Möbius-szalag (hu)
- Icelandic: Möbíusarræma f
- Ido: Mobius-strio
- Indonesian: pita Möbius
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- Interlingua: banda de Möbius
- Irish: stiall Möbius f
- Italian: nastro di Möbius m
- Japanese: メビウスの帯 (mebiusu no obi)
- Korean: 뫼비우스의 띠 (moebiuseu ddi)
- Latin: moebii taenia f
- Luxembourgish: Möbiusschläif
- Norwegian: möbius’ bånd n
- Polish: wstęga Möbiusa f
- Portuguese: fita de Möbius f
- Russian: лист Мёбиуса (ru) m (list Mjóbiusa), ле́нта Мёбиуса (ru) f (lénta Mjóbiusa)
- Serbo-Croatian: мебијусова трака f
- Slovene: Möbiusov trak m
- Spanish: banda de Möbius f, cinta de Möbius f
- Swedish: Möbiusband (sv) n
- Ukrainian: стрічка Мебіуса f (strička Mebiusa)
- Vietnamese: mặt Mobius
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narrow strip given a half twist
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