nek — meaning in English
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English meaning
- sheaf noun A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.
Senses
nek is used for these senses in English:
- sheaf A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.
- sheaf (mathematics) An abstract construct in topology that associates data to the open sets of a topological space (i.e. a presheaf) in such a way so as to make the local and global data compatible, generalizing the situation of functions, fiber bundles, manifold structure, etc. on a topological space. Formally, a presheaf \mathcal{F} whose sections are, in a technical sense, uniquely determined by their restrictions onto smaller sets: that is, given an open cover \{U_i \} of U:
sheaf — full definition
- noun A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.
- noun Any collection of things bound together.
- noun A bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer.
- noun A quantity of arrows, usually twenty-four.